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Audit all notes in the Awesome Search Obsidian vault for missing or incomplete frontmatter. Reports violations by folder and optionally auto-fixes notes where values can be inferred from content. Use for KG consistency checks.

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Awesome Search KG — Frontmatter Audit

Use this skill to check all notes for required frontmatter fields and fix missing values where they can be inferred from content.

When to use

After processing a batch of new articles
When notes feel inconsistently structured
Before running other KG quality skills (clean frontmatter makes other checks more reliable)

Required fields by note type

Type	Required fields
`article`	`type`, `title`, `source`, `author`, `created`, `tags`, `concepts`
`concept`	`type`, `tags`, `created`
`topic`	`type`, `tags`, `related_concepts`, `created`
`person`	`type`, `tags`, `created`
`company`	`type`, `tags`, `created`, `website` (if known)
`tool`	`type`, `tags`, `created`, `website` or `repo` (if known)

Vault Access

Always use the Obsidian MCP server for all vault operations — never access the vault directly via the filesystem (no Read/Write/Bash file tools). The MCP server is the only sanctioned way to read, search, create, and edit notes.

Workflow

1. Scan all notes

Check every note in Awesome Search/ for:

Missing type field
Missing created field
Missing source field (articles only)
Missing tags field
Missing concepts or related_concepts (articles and topics)
Notes with type: article but no author

2. Report violations by folder

FRONTMATTER AUDIT REPORT
========================
Articles/ — N notes, N violations:
  Missing `source`:  [list of note names]
  Missing `author`:  [list]
  Missing `concepts`: [list]

Concepts/ — N notes, N violations:
  Missing `type`:    [list]
  Missing `created`: [list]

People/ — N notes, N violations:
  ...

Total violations: N across N notes

3. Auto-fix where possible

For each violation, attempt to infer the missing value from note content:

type: infer from folder (Articles/ → article, Concepts/ → concept, etc.)
created: use file creation date if available, otherwise 2026-05-17
tags: infer from folder and note content
author: look for **Author:** or **Source:** lines in the note body
source: look for URLs in the note body

Ask for confirmation before writing, or auto-fix if the user has approved batch mode.

4. Flag un-inferable violations

For fields that cannot be reliably inferred (e.g. concepts for an article with no entity extraction yet), flag the note for manual review:

NEEDS MANUAL REVIEW
===================
- Articles/Some Article.md — missing `concepts` (no entity extraction done)
- People/Some Person.md — missing `website` (could not find URL in note)

5. Summary

FIX SUMMARY
===========
Auto-fixed: N fields across N notes
Flagged for manual review: N notes
No action needed: N notes

Notes

Run this skill before awesome-search-kg-orphans — orphan detection is more reliable with consistent type fields
Notes in Clippings/ and raw_articles/ are exempt — they are pre-processing staging areas, not KG notes