update-dashboard

Automating dashboard refresh is done by scanning Inbox, Needs_Action, and Done folders to count Markdown files and reading today's Logs JSON to compute queue health and oldest items. The skill writes these aggregated metrics to Dashboard.md in a single-writer-safe manner.

Monitoring vault folder aging and log activity is best handled by deterministic read-only scanning of folder contents to compute counts and oldest items, paired with reading today's Logs JSON to surface recent actions and status changes directly into Dashboard.md.

Yes, dashboard automation works with Markdown files and JSON logs by reading folder contents from Inbox, Needs_Action, and Done for relevant Markdown files, and reading today's activity from the Logs directory to surface recent actions and status changes.

Computing queue health and system status from filesystem watchers involves scanning Inbox, Needs_Action, and Done folders to count Markdown files, calculating the oldest item, and reading today's Logs JSON to write an up-to-date Dashboard.md reflecting current vault state.

Dashboard.md may not reflect recent log activity and folder counts if the automated refresh process has not been run, or if single-writer-safe mechanisms are preventing concurrent updates from aggregating metrics from Inbox, Needs_Action, Done, and Logs correctly.