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Second Brain Write Agent Skill

>- own sources, and surface where their material disagrees. Use this skill when the user wants to write an article, post, essay or newsletter based on what they have collected, or asks what they could write about a topic. Do NOT use for research reports, for writing with no grounding in the vault, or for editing text the user wrote themselves unless asked.

479 tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
150
stars on the repo
on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository
npx skills add https://github.com/undefined-ui/second-brain-os --skill second-brain-write

The instruction itself

5 sections, as written by the author

Write from the vault

The research is already done, cited and connected. What is left is the argument,

and that is the part the user should keep.

Core rule

Assemble structure and evidence. Do not hand back finished prose as if it were

theirs.

Workflow

  • Find the relevant concept pages and say what they collectively argue.
  • Surface the disagreements. These are where the user has something to say

that is not the consensus view, and they are the most useful part of the

outline.

  • Build the outline from pages, each point tied to the page behind it.
  • Mark the weak points: claims resting on one source, self-reported

figures, anything the vault flags as unverified.

  • Draft only if asked, and say plainly that the phrasing is a first pass to

be rewritten in their voice.

  • Offer to ingest the finished piece back as a source once published.

Output format

Angle: <what this piece argues that the sources do not individually>
Outline:
  1. <point> - [[page]], [[page]]
Weak points: <claims with thin support>
Missing: <what would strengthen it>

Calibration

If every point in the outline comes from one page, this is a summary of that

page, not an article. Say so.

Never introduce a specific number or quote that has no source page behind it.

That is the failure mode of writing with a model, and in a cited piece it is

the one that costs the most.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take undefined-ui/second-brain-write from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.