Topic · Knowledge Management
Best second brain skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Second brain skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Runs a bounded, source-grounded research loop that drafts a cited dossier and can propose a separately reviewed merge into an Obsidian vault. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 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/ | 15k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 3 | 3.3D Brain 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/ | 1.6k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 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/ | 15k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 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/ | 1.8k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 6 | Set up a new Obsidian knowledge base with the LLM Wiki pattern. | NicholasSpisak/ | 735 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 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/ | 15k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 8 | 8.Pm Brain 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/ | 894 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 31k | 1 repo | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | Converts PDFs, text, web pages or a codebase into an Obsidian vault of study notes, practice questions, or a developer onboarding guide. | bevibing/ | 1.3k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 11 | 11.Swarmvault 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/ | 708 | — | ~6.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 12 | Tracks three-year, yearly, monthly, and weekly goals in linked Markdown files, calculating completion percentages and flagging stalled goals. | ballred/ | 1.9k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 13 | A skill your agent uses when building or maintaining a personal knowledge base with LLM assistance. | SherwinQ/ | 113 | — | ~967 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 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/ | 178 | — | ~7.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 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/ | 15k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 16 | 16.My LLM Wiki Provides access to the user's personal wiki, including notes, research, project documentation, decisions, and archived knowledge. | MartinLwx/ | 140 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 18 days ago |
| 17 | Health-check the wiki for contradictions, orphan pages, stale claims, and missing cross-references. | NicholasSpisak/ | 735 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 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/ | 205 | — | ~917 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 19 | Walks the user through Charlie Hills's AI Second Brain + Karpathy Wiki setup from the MarTech AI newsletter. | charlie947/ | 184 | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 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/ | 5.7k | — | ~551 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 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/ | 4.7k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | yesterday |
| 22 | Reads, creates and edits notes in an Obsidian vault while preserving wiki-links, YAML frontmatter, tags and template variables. | ballred/ | 1.9k | — | ~652 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 7 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/ | 430 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 24 | 24.Baalda Guide 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/ | 153 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 25 | Assigns and checks Luhmann-style codes for book manuscript notes and Obsidian card folders without renumbering existing notes. | twhsi/ | 259 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 26 | 26.Mindbase Maintain a persistent AI-tended research wiki. An agent skill from frankchu91/mindbase-llm-wiki. | frankchu91/ | 128 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 23 days ago |
| 27 | Answer questions against the knowledge base wiki. An agent skill from NicholasSpisak/second-brain. | NicholasSpisak/ | 735 | — | ~712 | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 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/ | 1.9k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 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/ | 31k | — | ~875 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 15k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 31 | Personalized 6-month action plan to land a $100K AI job or equivalent income. | ayush488-glitch/ | 196 | — | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 32 | Diagnose and repair a broken or non-standard agent-second-brain install/migration. | smixs/ | 391 | — | ~904 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 33 | 33.LLM Wiki 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/ | 119 | — | ~8.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 16 days ago |
| 34 | 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/ | 299 | — | ~849 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 35 | 35.Sift Kg Use sift-kg as an AI second brain — a persistent knowledge graph your agent operates from across sessions. | juanceresa/ | 801 | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 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/ | 160 | — | ~625 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 14 days ago |
| 37 | 37.Ingest 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/ | 844 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 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/ | 1.9k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 7 mo ago |
| 39 | Build or revise private, cited Markdown notes from the user's WeChat history in the current agent session. | bojieli/ | 348 | — | ~669 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 days ago |
| 40 | 40.Relaunch Kill the running Baalda desktop (Tauri) dev instance AND the backend server, then launch fresh instances of both. | naveedharri/ | 153 | — | ~870 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 155 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 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/ | 670 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 20 days ago |
| 43 | Process raw source documents into wiki pages. An agent skill from NicholasSpisak/second-brain. | NicholasSpisak/ | 735 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 6 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/ | 4.1k | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 153 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 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/ | 15k | — | ~762 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 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/ | 305 | — | ~489 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 48 | Work through open findings in the latest lint report one at a time — propose a fix, apply on approval, skip on rejection. | PieroSierra/ | 152 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 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.