personal-wiki/skills/wiki-lint/SKILL.md

name, description

name	description
wiki-lint	Health check the Obsidian wiki vault. Finds orphan pages, dead wikilinks, stale claims, missing cross-references, frontmatter gaps, and empty sections. Creates or updates Dataview dashboards. Generates canvas maps. Triggers on: "lint", "health check", "clean up wiki", "check the wiki", "wiki maintenance", "find orphans", "wiki audit".

wiki-lint: Wiki Health Check

Run lint after every 10-15 ingests, or weekly. Ask before auto-fixing anything. Output a lint report to wiki/meta/lint-report-YYYY-MM-DD.md.

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Lint Checks

Work through these in order:

1. Orphan pages. Wiki pages with no inbound wikilinks. They exist but nothing points to them.
2. Dead links. Wikilinks that reference a page that does not exist.
3. Stale claims. Assertions on older pages that newer sources have contradicted or updated.
4. Missing pages. Concepts or entities mentioned in multiple pages but lacking their own page.
5. Missing cross-references. Entities mentioned in a page but not linked.
6. Frontmatter gaps. Pages missing required fields (type, status, created, updated, tags).
7. Empty sections. Headings with no content underneath.
8. Stale index entries. Items in wiki/index.md pointing to renamed or deleted pages.

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Lint Report Format

Create at wiki/meta/lint-report-YYYY-MM-DD.md:

---
type: meta
title: "Lint Report YYYY-MM-DD"
created: YYYY-MM-DD
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
tags: [meta, lint]
status: developing
---

# Lint Report: YYYY-MM-DD

## Summary
- Pages scanned: N
- Issues found: N
- Auto-fixed: N
- Needs review: N

## Orphan Pages
- [[Page Name]]: no inbound links. Suggest: link from [[Related Page]] or delete.

## Dead Links
- [[Missing Page]]: referenced in [[Source Page]] but does not exist. Suggest: create stub or remove link.

## Missing Pages
- "concept name": mentioned in [[Page A]], [[Page B]], [[Page C]]. Suggest: create a concept page.

## Frontmatter Gaps
- [[Page Name]]: missing fields: status, tags

## Stale Claims
- [[Page Name]]: claim "X" may conflict with newer source [[Newer Source]].

## Cross-Reference Gaps
- [[Entity Name]] mentioned in [[Page A]] without a wikilink.

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Naming Conventions

Enforce these during lint:

Element	Convention	Example
Filenames	Title Case with spaces	Machine Learning.md
Folders	lowercase with dashes	wiki/data-models/
Tags	lowercase, hierarchical	#domain/architecture
Wikilinks	match filename exactly	[[Machine Learning]]

Filenames must be unique across the vault. Wikilinks work without paths only if filenames are unique.

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Writing Style Check

During lint, flag pages that violate the style guide:

• Not declarative present tense ("X basically does Y" instead of "X does Y")
• Missing source citations where claims are made
• Uncertainty not flagged with > [!gap]
• Contradictions not flagged with > [!contradiction]

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Dataview Dashboard

Create or update wiki/meta/dashboard.md with these queries:

---
type: meta
title: "Dashboard"
updated: YYYY-MM-DD
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# Wiki Dashboard

## Recent Activity
```dataview
TABLE type, status, updated FROM "wiki" SORT updated DESC LIMIT 15
```

## Seed Pages (Need Development)
```dataview
LIST FROM "wiki" WHERE status = "seed" SORT updated ASC
```

## Entities Missing Sources
```dataview
LIST FROM "wiki/entities" WHERE !sources OR length(sources) = 0
```

## Open Questions
```dataview
LIST FROM "wiki/questions" WHERE answer_quality = "draft" SORT created DESC
```

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Canvas Map

Create or update wiki/meta/overview.canvas for a visual domain map:

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "1",
      "type": "file",
      "file": "wiki/overview.md",
      "x": 0, "y": 0,
      "width": 300, "height": 140,
      "color": "1"
    }
  ],
  "edges": []
}

Add one node per domain page. Connect domains that have significant cross-references. Colors map to the CSS scheme: 1=blue, 2=purple, 3=yellow, 4=orange, 5=green, 6=red.

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Before Auto-Fixing

Always show the lint report first. Ask: "Should I fix these automatically, or do you want to review each one?"

Safe to auto-fix:

• Adding missing frontmatter fields with placeholder values
• Creating stub pages for missing entities
• Adding wikilinks for unlinked mentions

Needs review before fixing:

• Deleting orphan pages (they might be intentionally isolated)
• Resolving contradictions (requires human judgment)
• Merging duplicate pages