/obsidian-project

description: Create or update a project note - adds to board and daily note automatically
category: vault
triggers_en: ["new project", "create project note", "project setup", "start a project"]
triggers_de: ["neues Projekt", "Projektnotiz erstellen", "Projekt einrichten", "ein Projekt starten"]
triggers_es: ["nuevo proyecto", "crea una nota de proyecto", "configura el proyecto", "arranca un proyecto", "crea un proyecto nuevo"]
triggers_pt: ["novo projeto", "crie uma nota de projeto", "configuração de projeto", "inicie um projeto"]
triggers_zh: ["创建一个新项目", "新建项目笔记", "开始这个项目", "为项目建立基本结构"]

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-project $ARGUMENTS`:

The argument is a project name. Handle typos and partial matches.

1. Read `_CLAUDE.md` first if it exists in the vault root 2. Search the vault for an existing project matching the name (fuzzy - handle typos) 3. If found: show what was found, confirm with user, then update with new info from conversation 4. If not found: create `Project Name.md` in the projects folder (resolved per `references/folder-map.md` - wiki-style `wiki/projects/`, Obsidian-style `Projects/`) with the full `type: project` schema from `references/ai-first-rules.md` (`type: project`, `date`, `updated`, `status: active`, `tags: [project]`, `related-people`, `related-projects`, optional `job`, `ai-first: true`) 5. Fill in everything inferable from the conversation: description, goals, key people, current status 6. Add a card to the relevant kanban board in the `📥 Backlog` or `🔨 In Progress` column 7. Link from today's daily note

If the name has a typo or is approximate, search the vault, show what was found, and confirm before proceeding. Never silently create a note with a misspelled name.

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**AI-first rule:** Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow `references/ai-first-rules.md` - `## For future agent` preamble, rich frontmatter (`type`, `date`, `tags`, `ai-first: true`, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory `[[wikilinks]]` for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. If that path does not resolve from your working directory, search upward for it; if you still cannot read it, say so before writing rather than producing a note that silently skips the rule. The vault is for future agent retrieval - not human reading.

**Anti-fabrication:** Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as `TBD`). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in `references/ai-first-rules.md`.

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From [obsidian-second-brain](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain), created by Eugeniu Ghelbur (AI Automation Engineer, AI Tooling Engineer, AI Educator). Questions or consulting: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugeniu-ghelbur/) or [e.ghelbur@gmail.com](mailto:e.ghelbur@gmail.com). More: [The AI Operator](https://theaioperator.io/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=file-credit) | [X](https://x.com/eugeniu_ghelbur) | [GitHub](https://github.com/eugeniughelbur). MIT license.