Act

Act Pack — "I have 100 ideas and no plan"

Tools for turning vault knowledge into decisions and actions.

Commands

/next — What should I focus on right now?

When the user invokes /next:

1. Gather current state:

• obs tasks pending --json — open tasks across vault
• obs daily open --json — today's daily note (if exists)
• obs files list --since 3d --sort modified --json — recently active files

1. Analyze:

• Group pending tasks by file/project
• Check which tasks are in recently active files (high momentum)
• Look for tasks with deadlines in frontmatter (due dates)
• Check for tasks tagged with priority markers

1. Recommend top 3 actions:

``` ## What to focus on now

### 1. [Task or action] From: [[source note]] Why now: [Has momentum / deadline approaching / blocking other work]

### 2. [Task or action] From: [[source note]] Why now: [reason]

### 3. [Task or action] From: [[source note]] Why now: [reason]

## Also on your plate

• [Other pending items, grouped by area]

## Stale tasks (consider archiving)

• [Tasks in files not modified for 2+ weeks]

```

1. Offer to update the daily note with the focused plan

/decide — Gather evidence for a decision

When the user invokes /decide :

1. Parse the decision question
2. Search the vault for relevant context:

• obs search content "" --json
• obs search content "" --json
• Check for notes explicitly about this topic

1. Read relevant notes and extract:

• Arguments for and against
• Past experiences or lessons learned
• Related decisions already made
• Values or principles expressed

1. Present the decision framework:

``` ## Decision:

### What your notes say

#### For

• [Evidence from [[note]]]
• [Evidence from [[note]]]

#### Against

• [Concern from [[note]]]
• [Concern from [[note]]]

### Related past decisions

• [Previous decision from [[note]] and its outcome]

### Your values on this

• [Principles or values expressed in relevant notes]

### What's missing

• [Information you'd need that isn't in the vault]

### Bottom line [Based on your own notes, the evidence leans toward X because...] ```

1. Emphasize: this is the user's own thinking reflected back, not new advice

/graduate — Promote buried ideas to standalone notes

When the user invokes /graduate:

1. Scan daily notes and journal entries for buried ideas:

• obs files list --folder "Daily" --sort modified --json (or detect daily note folder)
• obs files list --since 2w --sort modified --json

1. Read recent daily/journal notes and look for:

• Ideas that deserve their own note (substantial paragraphs not about daily logistics)
• Recurring themes across multiple days
• Questions or hypotheses that were written once and never followed up
• Links to notes that don't exist yet (broken links as idea signals)

1. Also check: obs links broken --json — broken links are ideas waiting to be born
2. Present candidates:

``` ## Ideas ready to graduate

### 1. "[Idea title]" Source: [[daily note]] (date) Original text: "[excerpt]" Why graduate: [Substantial thought / recurring theme / has connections] Suggested location: [folder/filename.md]

### 2. ...

## Broken links worth creating

• [[missing-note]] — referenced by N notes
• [[another-missing]] — referenced by M notes

```

1. For each idea the user wants to graduate:

• Create the new note with content expanded from the original excerpt
• Add wikilinks back to the source
• Add a wikilink from the source daily note to the new note
• Set frontmatter: type, tags, graduated-from

Tips

• /next should be opinionated. Don't just list everything — recommend a focus.
• /decide must only use the user's own notes as evidence. Don't inject outside opinions.
• /graduate is about recognizing when an idea has outgrown its container (daily note, journal entry).
• Check for daily note folder config: the folder might be "Daily", "Journal", "Daily Notes", etc.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: markfive-proto
• Source: markfive-proto/obsidian-brain-vault
• License: MIT
• Homepage: https://supermarcus.ai/brain-os

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.