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Alan Pope 5a557ceba7 feat: improve skill quality scores across 4 skills
Ran skills through tessl evaluation tooling and applied targeted
improvements to structure, conciseness, and workflow clarity.

| Skill             | Before | After | Change |
|-------------------|--------|-------|--------|
| defuddle          |  100%  | 100%  |   --   |
| json-canvas       |   83%  | 100%  |  +17%  |
| obsidian-bases    |   83%  | 100%  |  +17%  |
| obsidian-cli      |   94%  | 100%  |   +6%  |
| obsidian-markdown |   71%  |  94%  |  +23%  |

Changes:
- Add structured workflows with validation steps
- Extract verbose reference tables to references/ files (progressive disclosure)
- Remove standard Markdown content Claude already knows (obsidian-markdown)
- Add troubleshooting section for common YAML/formula errors (obsidian-bases)
- Restructure plugin dev section into numbered test cycle (obsidian-cli)
- Condense redundant examples, keep one per pattern

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-25 11:32:59 +00:00

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# Properties (Frontmatter) Reference
Properties use YAML frontmatter at the start of a note:
```yaml
---
title: My Note Title
date: 2024-01-15
tags:
- project
- important
aliases:
- My Note
- Alternative Name
cssclasses:
- custom-class
status: in-progress
rating: 4.5
completed: false
due: 2024-02-01T14:30:00
---
```
## Property Types
| Type | Example |
|------|---------|
| Text | `title: My Title` |
| Number | `rating: 4.5` |
| Checkbox | `completed: true` |
| Date | `date: 2024-01-15` |
| Date & Time | `due: 2024-01-15T14:30:00` |
| List | `tags: [one, two]` or YAML list |
| Links | `related: "[[Other Note]]"` |
## Default Properties
- `tags` - Note tags (searchable, shown in graph view)
- `aliases` - Alternative names for the note (used in link suggestions)
- `cssclasses` - CSS classes applied to the note in reading/editing view
## Tags
```markdown
#tag
#nested/tag
#tag-with-dashes
#tag_with_underscores
```
Tags can contain: letters (any language), numbers (not first character), underscores `_`, hyphens `-`, forward slashes `/` (for nesting).
In frontmatter:
```yaml
---
tags:
- tag1
- nested/tag2
---
```