Monthly Review

by ballred

Monthly Review is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ballred in obsidian-claude-pkm.

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Install in seconds

Install Monthly Review

Copy Monthly Review 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/monthly ~/.claude/skills/monthly

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/monthly/SKILL.md in ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/monthly
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Monthly Review does

Monthly Review rolls up weekly reviews, checks quarterly milestones, and sets next month's focus for an Obsidian PKM vault. Use at the end of a month or start of a new month to reflect on progress and plan ahead.

Monthly Review is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Monthly Review comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, goal-tracking, obsidian and pkm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Monthly Review Skill

Facilitates monthly review and planning by rolling up weekly reviews, checking quarterly milestones, and setting next month's focus.

Usage

/monthly              # Run monthly review for current month

Or ask:

"Help me with my monthly review"
"Plan next month"
"How did this month go?"

What This Skill Does

Creates or opens monthly goals file (Goals/2. Monthly Goals.md)
Rolls up weekly reviews from the past month
Checks quarterly milestones against yearly goals
Plans next month's focus areas and priorities

Review Process

Phase 1: Collect Monthly Data (10 minutes)

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

Commands Monthly Review provides

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

/monthly
/weekly
/goal-tracking
/project
/daily
/push

Frequently asked about Monthly Review

What else does ballred publish alongside Monthly Review?
Monthly Review is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt Vault, Check Links and Daily. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Monthly Review 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 Monthly Review compare to other Automation skills?
Monthly Review ranks #531 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Monthly Review against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.