Setup Vault

Every other skill in this family reads .agents/slipbox/vault-conventions.md before it writes anything. This skill produces that file through four steps: explore, confirm conventions, confirm style, write.

1. Explore

Check the vault for existing signal before asking the user anything:

• .obsidian/ for a templates/ folder and Templater plugin config (.obsidian/plugins/templater-obsidian), which show the vault's real template location and syntax.
• Root AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md for conventions the user already wrote down.
• Any existing literature or evergreen notes (folders named Literature, References, Evergreen, or similar) to use as a writing-style corpus later.

Done when: you know, for each of the three checks above, whether it found something or came up empty.

2. Section A: vault conventions

Present what you found. For anything missing, recommend a default and lead with it, for example: "No filename convention found. I recommend kebab-case (my-note-title.md): sound right, or do you use something else?" Go one item at a time: