Adopt Vault

by ballred

Adopt Vault is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ballred in obsidian-claude-pkm.

1.8K stars124 forkson ballred/obsidian-claude-pkmAdded 2026/08/18+4% in starsRepository updated 2026/02/18

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Install Adopt Vault

Copy Adopt Vault into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/tree/main/vault-template/.claude/skills/adopt ~/.claude/skills/adopt

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: vault-template/.claude/skills/adopt/SKILL.md in ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/adopt
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Adopt Vault does

Adopt Vault scaffolds the Claude PKM system onto an existing Obsidian vault by scanning folder structure, interactively mapping folders to roles, and generating configuration files like settings.json and CLAUDE.md.

Adopt Vault is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Adopt Vault comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, goal-tracking, obsidian and pkm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Adopt Skill

Bring Your Own Vault (BYOV) — install the Claude PKM system onto an existing Obsidian vault.

Usage

/adopt    # Run from the root of your existing Obsidian vault

When to Use

You have an existing Obsidian vault and want to add the Claude PKM system
You don't want to start from the vault template
You want to keep your current folder structure

Phase 1: Scan Vault Structure

Analyze the existing vault to understand its organization.

Steps

List top-level directories using ls, excluding system dirs (.obsidian, .git, .claude, .trash, .claude-plugin)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Adopt Vault provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/adopt
/onboard
/review
/daily
/push
/weekly

Frequently asked about Adopt Vault

What else does ballred publish alongside Adopt Vault?
Adopt Vault is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Check Links, Daily and Git Push. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Adopt Vault does, and is maintained by ballred in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm page.
How does Adopt Vault compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Adopt Vault ranks #917 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Adopt Vault against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.