wiki-switch

SKILL.md

Wiki Switch — Manage Multiple Vault Profiles

Each vault is a complete config file at ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name>. The active vault is
whichever file ~/.obsidian-wiki/config symlinks to. Switching vaults means re-pointing that symlink.

Dispatch

Parse the invocation and route to the right section:

Invocation
Action

/wiki-switch <name>
→ Switch

/wiki-switch list
→ List

/wiki-switch show [name]
→ Show

/wiki-switch new <name>
→ New

/wiki-switch (no args)
→ List (treat as list)

Switch (default action)

Activate a named vault profile.

Verify ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name> exists. If not, tell the user the vault doesn't exist and list what's available (run List).

Run:
ln -sf ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name> ~/.obsidian-wiki/config

Read OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH from the newly active config.

Confirm to the user:
Switched to vault: <name>
Vault path: <value of OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH from the config>

List

Show all registered vault profiles and which is active.

Find all files matching ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.* (exclude config itself — that's the symlink).

Resolve the current symlink target: readlink ~/.obsidian-wiki/config

For each config file, read the first non-empty comment line (lines starting with #) as a human description of the vault. Fall back to the file's suffix as the label if no comment exists.

Display:
Vaults:
  personal   My personal research wiki    ← active
  work       Work projects wiki

Mark the active one with ← active. If the symlink is broken or config doesn't exist, show (none active).

Show

Print the full config for a vault.

If a name is given, read ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name>.

If no name given, read ~/.obsidian-wiki/config (the active vault).

If the file doesn't exist, tell the user and list what's available.

Print the file contents verbatim (redact any lines containing API_KEY or SECRET — show *** instead of the value).

New

Scaffold a new vault config from the current active config as a template.

Check ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name> doesn't already exist. Abort if it does.

Copy the active config:
cp ~/.obsidian-wiki/config ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name>

Read the copied config. Config files use # --- Section name --- comment headers to group fields into sections (e.g., # --- Vault-specific ---, # --- Vault-independent ---, # --- Secrets ---). Use these sections to determine what to ask about:

Fields in sections labeled "vault-specific", "paths", or similar → ask the user for new values

Fields in sections labeled "vault-independent", "global", "shared" → keep as-is (copy over unchanged)

Fields in sections labeled "secrets" → ask if the new vault uses the same credentials or different ones

If there are no section headers, present all fields and let the user decide which to change

Ask the user for updated values for the vault-specific fields. Use the current values as visible defaults — the user only needs to supply what differs.

Write the updated values into ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name>.

Update the top comment line to describe the new vault (e.g., # Obsidian Wiki — <name> vault).

Confirm:
Created: ~/.obsidian-wiki/config.<name>
Run `/wiki-switch <name>` to activate it, then run `wiki-setup` to initialise the new vault.

Do not switch automatically — let the user decide when to activate.