ACT_Base: Annotation-Connection-Thought Workflow for Obsidian

ACT_Base is a minimal Obsidian vault that demonstrates the Annotation → Connection → Thought (ACT) knowledge workflow, driven by Claude Code skills run from a terminal inside Obsidian. Users drop in atomic Zettelkasten cards generated from papers, then run dedicated skills to turn isolated cards into a cross-paper knowledge network.

The vault organizes twelve skills across three layers: Annotation (card-review, gear-coaching, cross-link, monitor), Connection (gear-aggregate, framework-synthesize, query, tension-resolve), and Thought (provenance-audit, refine, question-assess, question-challenge). It ships with three pre-loaded demo annotations and a video walkthrough covering setup through the first Connection note. It is designed to pair with the claude_lit_workflow repository, which can generate the atomic cards from source PDFs, and with the lean-obsidian-terminal community plugin for running Claude Code inside Obsidian.

Status: Active — under regular maintenance.