Topic · Knowledge Management

Best second brain skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Skills that build and maintain a personal second brain from notes and sources.
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Runs a bounded, source-grounded research loop that drafts a cited dossier and can propose a separately reviewed merge into an Obsidian vault.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
2

Creates, inspects and updates Obsidian JSON Canvas boards in a vault, with text, file, link, group and edge nodes, using safe recoverable edits.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
3

A skill your agent uses when someone asks to build a 3D brain, visualize their AIOS or second brain, turn their knowledge into an interactive graph, or run /3d-brain or /3D brain.

nateherkai/AIS-OS1.6k—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown1 mo ago
4

Sets up or adopts a separate Obsidian knowledge vault through the claude-obsidian core script and routes follow-up work to the right wiki sub-skill.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
5

Design any process, idea, problem, or body of knowledge into an ICM (Interpretable Context Methodology) workspace — folder structure as agent architecture — or restructure an existing folder, repo…

RinDig/icm-architect1.8k—~3.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
6

Set up a new Obsidian knowledge base with the LLM Wiki pattern.

NicholasSpisak/second-brain735—~1.5kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence6 mo ago
7

Creates a bounded, extractive rollup of recent Obsidian wiki log entries, previewed by default, with one optional apply step and no changes to child pages.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
8

Initialize a PM Brain — a markdown-native second brain for a product operator (PM, product lead, founder, or anyone accountable for one product or initiative) doing judgment-heavy work with…

phuryn/pm-brain894—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
9

Adds a persistent wiki knowledge base to a NanoClaw group following Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern, with folders, a tailored container skill and a CLAUDE.md section.

nanocoai/nanoclaw31k1 repo~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMITyesterday
10

Converts PDFs, text, web pages or a codebase into an Obsidian vault of study notes, practice questions, or a developer onboarding guide.

bevibing/tutor-skills1.3k—~1.9kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT7 mo ago
11

Use SwarmVault when the user needs a local-first knowledge vault that writes durable markdown, graph, search, dashboard, review, chat-session, context-pack, task-ledger, static AI export, retrieval…

swarmclawai/swarmvault708—~6.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
12

Tracks three-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals in linked Markdown files, calculating completion percentages and flagging stalled goals.

ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm1.9k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT7 mo ago
13

A skill your agent uses when building or maintaining a personal knowledge base with LLM assistance.

SherwinQ/karpathy-wiki113—~967Automated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
14

Pull metadata from YouTube subscription videos into a second-brain vault as a real cross-linked knowledge graph — not just a flat archive.

EfficientStreet/youtube-subscriptions-ingest178—~7.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT1 mo ago
15

Explains, drafts and validates Obsidian Bases .base files, building filters, formulas and table, card or list views, and applying edits only through one inspected transaction.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
16

Provides access to the user's personal wiki, including notes, research, project documentation, decisions, and archived knowledge.

MartinLwx/dotfiles140—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence18 days ago
17

Health-check the wiki for contradictions, orphan pages, stale claims, and missing cross-references.

NicholasSpisak/second-brain735—~1kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence6 mo ago
18

Turns PDFs, slides, syllabi, papers and transcripts into structured, teaching-quality Obsidian notes, matching how much structure is built to how much the material needs.

Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent205—~917Automated safety check: PassMIT3 mo ago
19

Walks the user through Charlie Hills's AI Second Brain + Karpathy Wiki setup from the MarTech AI newsletter.

charlie947/ai-second-brain184—~3.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
20

Maintains a project-scoped Obsidian research knowledge base: bootstrapping its folders, routing notes, updating hub, plan and index notes, and linting.

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar5.7k—~551Automated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
21

Captures and searches personal notes in a self-hosted Open Brain using plain curl calls over HTTP, for setups where MCP is disabled or blocked.

NateBJones-Projects/OB14.7k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknownyesterday
22

Reads, creates and edits notes in an Obsidian vault while preserving wiki-links, YAML frontmatter, tags and template variables.

ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm1.9k—~652Automated safety check: PassMIT7 mo ago
23

Sets up, evaluates or turns off Open Second Brain's optional decision-model feature, starting from the o2b decision-model check command and a provider route you choose.

itechmeat/open-second-brain430—~2.1kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
24

Answer any question about Baalda (the team second-brain app at baalda.com) in plain, non-technical language — what it is, what it can and cannot do, which file formats it supports (Markdown, images…

naveedharri/baalda153—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
25

Assigns and checks Luhmann-style codes for book manuscript notes and Obsidian card folders without renumbering existing notes.

twhsi/skills259—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 mo ago
26

Maintain a persistent AI-tended research wiki. An agent skill from frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki.

frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki128—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT23 days ago
27

Answer questions against the knowledge base wiki. An agent skill from NicholasSpisak/second-brain.

NicholasSpisak/second-brain735—~712Automated safety check: NotesNo licence6 mo ago
28

Creates, tracks and archives projects linked to yearly goals in an Obsidian vault, with a status dashboard and a CLAUDE.md context file for each project.

ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm1.9k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT7 mo ago
29

Searches and writes a company-wide knowledge brain through the gbrain CLI, so durable decisions and facts about people, projects and history stay findable beyond one session.

garrytan/gbrain31k—~875Automated safety check: PassMITtoday
30

Files a specific answer, decision or insight you point to in a conversation as one reviewed note in your Obsidian vault, and only when you ask for it.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~1.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
31

Personalized 6-month action plan to land a $100K AI job or equivalent income.

ayush488-glitch/ai-career-planner-skill196—~5.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
32

Diagnose and repair a broken or non-standard agent-second-brain install/migration.

smixs/agent-second-brain391—~904Automated safety check: NotesMIT2 mo ago
33

Guide users through setting up a personal LLM-maintained wiki — a persistent, compounding knowledge base where the LLM incrementally builds and maintains interlinked markdown pages from raw sources.

infranodus/skills119—~8.6kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence16 days ago
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Creates new Obsidian Canvas files, either blank with a starter structure or from one of 12 templates such as flowchart, mind map, kanban or timeline.

AgriciDaniel/claude-canvas299—~849Automated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
35

Use sift-kg as an AI second brain — a persistent knowledge graph your agent operates from across sessions.

juanceresa/sift-kg801—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
36

Sets up, audits or incrementally upgrades a local Obsidian vault for knowledge work and content production, without overwriting or moving existing notes.

imraywang/rayskills160—~625Automated safety check: PassUnknown14 days ago
37

When you paste raw human input — a call transcript (Grain, Zoom, Granola, Fathom), a text or email from a client/partner/friend, a voice-memo dump, or meeting notes — and want it converted into…

coreyhaines31/makerskills844—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
38

Updates an obsidian-claude-pkm vault's system files to the latest version, with a backup, per-file diff review and no changes to your own notes.

ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm1.9k—~1.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT7 mo ago
39

Build or revise private, cited Markdown notes from the user's WeChat history in the current agent session.

bojieli/greenbubbles348—~669Automated safety check: PassMIT4 days ago
40

Kill the running Baalda desktop (Tauri) dev instance AND the backend server, then launch fresh instances of both.

naveedharri/baalda153—~870Automated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
41

A skill your agent uses when creating or refreshing a product builder's personal profile in 8-System/about.md - supports both assessment-based (Gallup, DISC, MBTI) and interview-based onboarding

superhero-tech/super-brain155—~1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
42

Audit any second brain, notes folder, or agent memory for facts that have quietly stopped being true, then fix the worst one so it stops recurring.

coleam00/skills670—~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT20 days ago
43

Process raw source documents into wiki pages. An agent skill from NicholasSpisak/second-brain.

NicholasSpisak/second-brain735—~1.1kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence6 mo ago
44

Guides a newcomer to Basic Memory through designing a personal knowledge system, then teaches its use and sets up their assistant to load it each session.

basicmachines-co/basic-memory4.1k—~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
45

Run Baalda's real desktop UI in a local browser with synthetic vault data to preview Windows or macOS layouts, investigate visual bugs, and capture screenshots from a Mac.

naveedharri/baalda153—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
46

Detects and uses the official Obsidian command-line interface for read-only vault access, falling back to direct file reads, while all mutations stay on a separate transaction core.

AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian15k—~762Automated safety check: PassMIT27 days ago
47

Answers the six everyday life questions (my goals, what to focus on, the weekly priorities, the highlight of today, my key elements, what has my…

myICOR/myPKA305—~489Automated safety check: NotesMITyesterday
48

Work through open findings in the latest lint report one at a time — propose a fix, apply on approval, skip on rejection.

PieroSierra/SecondBrain152—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence2 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best second brain skill?

Bounded Autoresearch from AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian ranks first of the 120 second brain skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 15k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 1.6k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Obsidian Canvas Boards and 3D Brain.

Which second brain skills are official?

None yet. All 120 second brain skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.