Academic Obsidian World Builder

This skill transforms a collection of academic PDFs into a rich, interconnected Obsidian knowledge network — a Wikipedia-style web of concept notes, each populated with atomic sentences drawn directly from the literature and linked to one another.

Overview of the Workflow

This skill has two modes. Determine which applies before doing anything else:

• Build mode — Creating a new knowledge network from scratch (Phases 1–4)
• Expand mode — Adding new papers to an existing vault (Phase 5)

If the user mentions an existing vault or says they want to add papers to an existing network, use Expand mode (Phase 5). Otherwise, use Build mode.

Build mode — four sequential phases

Complete each phase fully before starting the next. Phases 1 and 3 can use parallel subagents for large paper sets (≥5 papers or ≥10 concepts respectively).