/vault-daily

/vault-daily

Requires: vault-mind MCP server

Create or update the daily note for today.

Steps

1. Read _CLAUDE.md at vault root (via vault.exists + vault.read) for folder map, naming conventions, daily-note location override.

2. Read CRITICAL_FACTS.md (via vault.exists + vault.read) for timezone and user identity. If absent, default to system timezone and warn once.

3. Resolve today's daily note path: default daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md (override via _CLAUDE.md if present).

   • Use vault.exists to check if today's file exists.
   • If not: read templates/Daily Note.md via vault.read, fill date fields, create via vault.create.
   • If yes: inject (do not overwrite) via vault.modify or vault.append.

4. Pull calendar events (if Google Calendar MCP tools available):

   • Fetch today's events using google_calendar_list_events or equivalent.
   • Add a ## Calendar section to the daily note with time, title, attendees for each event.
   • For meetings with known entities: link to [[Person Name]] pages (use vault.search to verify the person note exists; only link if it does).
   • If calendar tools are not available, skip silently (do not error).

5. Pull overdue and due-today tasks from kanban boards:

   • Use vault.list with glob boards/**/*.md to enumerate boards.
   • Scan for items with date markers @YYYY-MM-DD that match today or are past due.
   • Add to daily note's ## Focus section with priority markers (red = P0, yellow = P1, green = P2).

6. Scan current conversation for anything relevant to today:

   • Tasks in progress, people mentioned, decisions made, work topic.
   • Pre-fill or update the note's ## Context section with that context.

7. Check log.md for last night's sleeptime consolidation:

   • If the nightly agent ran (see vault-reconcile skill + agent/ scheduler), summarize what it did (reconciled contradictions, synthesized patterns, healed orphans).
   • Add a brief ## Overnight section so the user knows what changed while they slept.

8. Report: return the path of the daily note, plus a one-line summary of what was added (e.g., "3 events, 5 focus tasks, 2 conversation decisions, 1 overnight synthesis").

Rules

• All output in user's language (as declared in _CLAUDE.md).
• No destructive overwrite: inject sections, never clobber existing content.
• Frontmatter required: any new daily note must have date: YYYY-MM-DD and tags: [daily].
• Fallback on missing infra: _CLAUDE.md absent -> use this skill's defaults. Calendar MCP absent -> skip. Template absent -> generate a minimal note with just # YYYY-MM-DD heading + empty sections.
• Idempotent: running /vault-daily twice on the same day updates, never duplicates.

Related skills

• vault-reconcile -- the nightly 5-phase agent whose output this skill summarizes into ## Overnight.
• vault-save -- when a /vault-daily invocation produces saveable items (decisions, tasks), defer to vault-save instead of inlining.
• vault-librarian -- for retrieval-heavy daily prep (e.g., "what did I decide yesterday"), invoke this persona.

Provenance

Adapted from obsidian-second-brain/commands/obsidian-daily.md (upstream: eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain, MIT license). MCP tool references rewritten to use vault-mind MCP surface (vault.*) in place of the upstream mcp-obsidian surface (get_file_contents / list_files_in_vault / write_file). Google Calendar MCP reference preserved as-is (cross-system dependency).