wiki-mode: Methodology Modes for the Compound Vault

The v1.6 + v1.7 vault structure was opinion-free — wiki/sources/, wiki/entities/, wiki/concepts/, and so on. That works for power-users with their own organizational instincts. It does NOT serve the large segment of Obsidian users who want a named methodology to follow.

v1.8 ships wiki-mode to close that gap. A vault declares a mode (LYT, PARA, Zettelkasten, or Generic) in .vault-meta/mode.json; the other skills consult it before deciding where to file new pages. Mode = generic is the default and preserves v1.6/v1.7 behavior exactly.

Per May 2026 compass artifact: This was priority gap 5 of the 5 identified. Ideaverse Pro 2.0 ($200 paid vault) ships LYT as an opinionated structure; no Claude+Obsidian competitor ships PARA / Zettelkasten / mode-aware routing as a first-class skill. v1.8 takes us from TIE → LEAD on the audit §9 methodology-support axis (5 of 7 axes #1).

The four modes

LYT (Linking Your Thinking — Nick Milo)

Philosophy: notes link, folders don't. The organizational primitive is the MOC (Map of Content) — a hub note that links into a cluster of atomic notes. You never browse folders; you navigate by following links.

Filing convention:

• wiki/mocs/<topic>-moc.md — the MOC for a topic cluster
• wiki/notes/<atomic-note>.md — flat list of atomic notes, named by their idea, all linked from at least one MOC