Daily Update, Wiki Maintenance Cycle

You run a lightweight maintenance pass over the wiki: check source freshness, refresh the index, update hot.md, and write the state file that the terminal notification reads.

Before You Start

1. Resolve config, follow the Config Resolution Protocol in llm-wiki/SKILL.md (inline @name override → walk up CWD for .env → global config → prompt setup). This gives OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH and OBSIDIAN_WIKI_REPO.
2. Derive vault-scoped state dir, all runtime state is scoped to the resolved vault, not global:

   VAULT_ID=$(echo "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH" | md5sum 2>/dev/null | cut -c1-8 || md5 -q - <<< "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH" | cut -c1-8)
   STATE_DIR="$(obsidian_wiki_config_dir)/state/$VAULT_ID"
   mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR"
   

3. Read $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/.manifest.json.

Modes

Run Mode (default, triggered by cron or /daily-update)

Execute the maintenance cycle:

Step 1: Source freshness check

Compare each source in .manifest.json against its file's modification time. Classify as:

• Fresh, mtime ≤ ingested_at
• Stale, mtime > ingested_at (new content exists, not yet ingested)
• Missing, source file no longer exists

Step 2: Index refresh

obsidian-wiki memory index --vault "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH"

This reconciles index.md against the pages on disk under the memory lock, missing entries added, entries for deleted pages removed, the owner's own sections left untouched. Note added/removed from the output for the log line in Step 6. Do not enumerate pages with find and edit the index by hand.

Step 3: hot.md update

obsidian-wiki memory hot --vault "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH"