athola/digital-garden-cultivator
plugins/memory-palace/skills/digital-garden-cultivator/SKILL.md
Manages digital garden notes, link structures, and health metrics. Use when curating a knowledge base, pruning stale notes, or tracking content maturity.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- digital-garden-cultivator
- description:
- Manages digital garden notes, link structures, and health metrics. Use when curating a knowledge base, pruning stale notes, or tracking content maturity.
- alwaysApply:
- false
- category:
- cultivation
- - leyline:
- storage-templates
- complexity:
- intermediate
- model_hint:
- standard
- estimated_tokens:
- 500
Table of Contents
- What It Is
- Quick Start
- Calculate Garden Metrics
- Output Formats
- When to Use
- Content Maturity Levels
- Core Workflow
- Garden Layout Template
- Maintenance Cadence
- Success Metrics
- Detailed Resources
- Integration
Digital Garden Cultivator
Design, manage, and evolve digital gardens as living knowledge bases. Digital gardens are interconnected note collections that grow organically, emphasizing evolution over perfection.
What It Is
A digital garden approach to knowledge management that:
- Builds dynamic knowledge bases that evolve over time
- Connects notes through bidirectional links
- Incubates ideas before formalizing as documentation
- Creates discovery paths for information navigation
- Tracks content maturity and maintenance needs
Quick Start
Calculate Garden Metrics
python scripts/garden_metrics.py path/to/garden.json --format brief
Verification: Run python --version to verify Python environment.
Output Formats
json- Full metrics as JSONbrief- One-line summaryprometheus- Prometheus exposition format
When To Use
- Building dynamic knowledge bases that evolve over time
- Connecting notes, skills, and palaces through bidirectional links
- Incubating ideas before formalizing as documentation
- Creating discovery paths for navigating information
- Managing content lifecycle (seedling → growing → evergreen)
When NOT To Use
- Creating memory palace structures - use memory-palace-architect
- Evaluating new knowledge
- use knowledge-intake
- Creating memory palace structures - use memory-palace-architect
- Evaluating new knowledge
- use knowledge-intake
Content Maturity Levels
| Level | Status | Description | |-------|--------|-------------| | Seedling | New/rough | Early ideas, incomplete thoughts | | Growing | Developing | Being actively refined | | Evergreen | Mature | Stable, well-developed content |
Core Workflow
- Collect Sources - Gather notes, bookmarks, ideas
- Plan Structure - Define garden organization
- Create Links - Build bidirectional connections
- Schedule Maintenance - Establish tending cadence
- Document Outputs - Convert mature ideas to formal docs
Garden Layout Template
garden:
sections: ["research", "patterns", "experiments"]
plots:
- name: "My First Note"
purpose: "reference" # reference | evergreen | lab
maturity: "seedling" # seedling | growing | evergreen
inbound_links: []
outbound_links: []
last_tended: "2025-11-24T10:00:00Z"
Verification: Run the command with --help flag to verify availability.
Maintenance Cadence
| Action | Frequency | Purpose | |--------|-----------|---------| | Quick prune | Every 2 days | Remove dead links, fix typos | | Stale review | After 7 days inactive | Assess content freshness | | Archive | After 30 days inactive | Move to archive or delete |
Success Metrics
- Link density - Average links per piece of content
- Bidirectional coverage - % of links that are reciprocal
- Freshness - Time since last update per area
- Maturity ratio - Evergreen content / total content
Detailed Resources
- Linking Patterns: See
modules/linking-patterns.md - Maintenance Guide: See
modules/maintenance.md - Metrics Integration: See
modules/maintenance.md
Integration
memory-palace-architect- Host garden within palace structureknowledge-locator- Search garden contentsession-palace-builder- Seed garden from session insights
Troubleshooting
Common Issues
Pre-commit hooks failing
Run SKIP=... git commit to bypass temporarily, then fix issues
Merge conflicts
Use git merge --abort to reset, then resolve conflicts carefully
Commit rejected Check hook output and fix reported issues before committing again
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