Use when the user asks to find missing connections, deep insights, or gaps in the vault, or when asked to explore a note and find what's missing between related concepts
Finds mathematical insights that are implicit across multiple vault notes but never stated explicitly. Reads a note, traces its wikilink neighborhood, and identifies a bridging concept or theorem that unifies the connected notes — then writes it up as a new note.
Accept a note from the user, or choose one that is a hub — many outgoing wikilinks to diverse topics. Good seeds have 4+ See Also links spanning different areas (e.g., a note linking to both series convergence and special functions).
Look for one of these patterns:
| Gap type |
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| Signal |
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| Example |
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| Missing bridge | Two notes reference the same concept from different angles but never link to each other | Infinite products + Gamma function both use convergence factors, but no note explains the Weierstrass product connecting them |
| Unstated consequence | A theorem in note A, applied to a definition in note B, yields a result mentioned in neither | Digamma derivatives evaluated at integers give zeta values |
| Hidden equivalence | Two notes prove related things by different methods, but the deeper equivalence is never stated | Euler's sine product is the Gamma reflection formula |
| Missing generalization | Several notes are special cases of a theorem not in the vault | Multiple convergence tests as corollaries of a single comparison principle |
Quality bar: The insight should be something a student reading the individual notes would likely miss, but that deepens understanding of both sides once seen.
Use the new-math-note skill to create the note. Additional requirements for discovered connections:
claude-generated — marks this as a synthesized insight, not transcribed from course materialAfter writing the note, explain to the user:
Use the obsidian CLI to query the running Obsidian instance:
obsidian search:context query="<query>" # full-text search with line context
obsidian search query="<query>" # search across notes (file matches)
obsidian aliases # list all aliases in the vault
obsidian backlinks file="<note>" # find notes linking to a note
obsidian links file="<note>" # list outgoing links from a note
obsidian unresolved # verify wikilinks after writing
obsidian orphans # find notes with no incoming links (isolated — good seeds)
obsidian deadends # find notes with no outgoing links
If the user says "any note," prefer notes that are:
Avoid notes that are:
new-math-note workflowclaude-generatedobsidian unresolved