action-items

What this skill does

# Action Items

Retrieves all open action items across the Obsidian vault - combining tasks assigned by name in meeting notes with personal todos from daily notes.

## CLI Path

Always invoke the CLI via `/usr/local/bin/obsidian` (full path required for sandbox compatibility).

## Vault Structure

Daily notes live in `Daily/` (named `YYYY-MM-DD.md`).
Meeting notes live in `Meetings/Work/` and `Meetings/Personal/`.

The obsidian CLI resolves the active vault automatically - no hardcoded paths needed.

## Arguments

Parse `$ARGUMENTS` for two optional values:

- **Owner name**: any word that does not contain `=`. Default: `Adam`.
- **Vault name**: a `vault=<name>` keyword argument. Default: `Core`.

Examples:

- `/action-items` → owner=Adam, vault=Core
- `/action-items Sarah` → owner=Sarah, vault=Core
- `/action-items vault=Work` → owner=Adam, vault=Work
- `/action-items Sarah vault=Work` → owner=Sarah, vault=Work

The owner name must match the wikilink tag used in meeting notes (e.g. `[[Sarah]]`).

## Retrieval Process

### Step 1: Meeting Note Action Items

Run `/usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo` and filter for tasks tagged with the owner's name. Replace `OWNER` with the resolved name:

```bash
/usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq --arg name "OWNER" '[.[] | select(.text | test("\\[\\[\($name)\\]\\]"))]'
```

This returns tasks of the form `- [ ] [[OWNER]]: <description>` found across all notes.

### Step 2: Daily Note Todos

Daily notes use first-person tasks (no name tag). Only include these when the owner is the default user (Adam). Filter by file path:

```bash
/usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq '[.[] | select(.file | startswith("Daily/")) | select(.text | length > 6)]'
```

The `length > 6` check filters out empty checkboxes (`- [ ] ` is 6 chars).

### Step 3: Present Combined Results

Present results as three separate tables, in this order:

1. **Meetings** - tasks from `Meetings/` notes (only shown when results exist)
2. **Daily** - personal todos from `Daily/` notes (only shown for default owner, when results exist)
3. **Projects** - tasks from any other path not matching the above (only shown when results exist)

Show a total count at the end.

## Output Format

Each section is a markdown table with columns: `#`, `Task`, `Source`.

- **Meetings table**: `Source` = clickable link to the meeting note
- **Daily table**: `Source` = clickable link to the daily note
- **Projects table**: `Source` = clickable link to the file

### Obsidian URI Links

Build a clickable link for each source using the Obsidian URI scheme. Use the resolved vault name (default `Core`). URL-encode the file path (replace spaces with `%20`, etc.) using Python or jq.

Format: `obsidian://open?vault=<VaultName>&file=<url-encoded-path>`

The link label is:

- **Meetings**: meeting title (filename without date prefix and `.md`)
- **Daily**: the date (YYYY-MM-DD extracted from filename)
- **Projects**: the file path

To URL-encode the path in a shell pipeline, use Python:

```bash
python3 -c "import urllib.parse, sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1], safe='/'))" "path/to/file"
```

Or inline with jq using `@uri`:

```bash
jq -r '.file | @uri'
```

Note: `@uri` in jq encodes slashes too - if you need to preserve `/`, use Python instead.

Example rendered output:

```
### Meetings

| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 1 | Confirm Glean doc searchability | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |
| 2 | Start SailPoint SCIM testing | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |

### Daily

| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 3 | Destroy EC2 instances for Mike Beiter Demo | [2026-02-26](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Daily%2F2026-02-26.md) |

---
X open items total
```

Numbers are sequential across all tables (meetings start at 1, daily continues the count, projects continues after that).

Strip the `[[Name]]:` prefix and wikilink brackets from all task text for clean output.
Strip markdown link syntax (e.g. `[text](url)`) down to just the `text` portion.
Strip `[[wikilinks]]` formatting from all task text, converting them to plain text.
Strip the `- [ ] ` checkbox prefix from task text.