Orient yourself in the user's second brain: active projects with next tasks, overdue and upcoming tasks, unprocessed inbox items, and recently touched notes. Call this at the start of a session or when asked 'what am I working on?'.

Search the vault: full-text (titles boosted, fuzzy + prefix matching), fused with local semantic search when the vault has embeddings enabled. Filter by type (note/project/daily/person/reference/area), tag, folder prefix, or frontmatter status.

Find notes related to a given note, with reasons: direct links, shared link-neighbors, shared (rarity-weighted) tags, unlinked title mentions, and semantic similarity when embeddings are enabled. Use to pull surrounding context before working on a topic, or to find where a new note should link.

Read a note by path, title, alias, or filename (case-insensitive). Returns frontmatter and full body.

Create a markdown note. type decides the folder (note→notes/, project→projects/, person→people/, reference→reference/, area→areas/). Use [[wikilinks]] in the body to connect it to related notes — always link generously.

Append markdown to a note, optionally under a specific heading (created at the end if missing). The safe default way to add content without overwriting anything.

Merge keys into a note's YAML frontmatter (set a key to null to remove it). Use for status, priority, due, area, tags, aliases.

Rewrite a note's entire body (frontmatter preserved). Prefer append_note for additions; use this only for deliberate rewrites/reorganizations.

Move a note into the archive folder (the non-destructive alternative to deletion). Archived notes are excluded from search and listings by default.

Quick-capture a thought, link, or piece of information into the inbox for later processing. Use when something is worth keeping but you don't yet know where it belongs.

Return today's daily note (or a specific date's), creating it from the daily template if needed.

Append a timestamped entry to today's daily note Log section. Use to record decisions, progress, and events as they happen — this builds the user's work journal.

List notes by folder, type, or tag, most recently modified first. Use for browsing; use search_notes for content queries.

Show a note's graph neighborhood: outgoing wikilinks (resolved and broken) and backlinks from other notes. Use to explore context around a topic.

All tags in the vault with usage counts, most used first.

List projects with status, open/done task counts, and next tasks. Statuses: idea, active, paused, done, dropped.

Create a project note (Goal/Tasks/Notes/Log sections) with status frontmatter. Projects are the unit of ongoing work; link related notes to them with [[wikilinks]].

Change a project's status (idea/active/paused/done/dropped). 'done' stamps a completion date.

List checkbox tasks across the vault, sorted by due date then priority. Filter by status (open/done/all), project, tag, or dueBy date.

Add a checkbox task to a project's Tasks section (or today's daily note if no note given). Supports due date and priority.

Mark a task done by id (from list_tasks) or by a unique text fragment. Stamps today's date.

Edit one task in place: reschedule (due), reprioritize, reword, reopen, or cancel — without rewriting the note. Matches by id (from list_tasks) or a unique text fragment, including done and cancelled tasks. Use complete_task to finish a task.

Lint the vault: broken wikilinks, duplicate titles, stale active projects, overdue tasks, orphan notes, inbox pileup. Use during reviews.