Injects the canonical vault frontmatter schema snippet into agent prompts before any vault-write task, preventing malformed YAML frontmatter in Obsidian notes. <example>Context: wave-executor is about to dispatch a vault-mirror agent that writes learning notes under ~/Projects/vault/40-learnings/. user: "dispatch vault-write agent" assistant: "Injecting frontmatter-guard snippet into agent prompt (vault scope detected). Required fields: id, type, created, updated. Enum type: note|daily|project|person|reference|idea|learning|session." <commentary>The wave-executor pre-dispatch hook calls detectVaultTaskScope() — the fileScope contains /Projects/vault/40-learnings/ so the guard triggers and the snippet is prepended to the agent system prompt.</commentary></example>
Read that file and follow it exactly. Resolve relative links against skills/frontmatter-guard/, not this wrapper.
Cursor has no Skill tool. Treat "invoke the frontmatter-guard skill" as: Read skills/frontmatter-guard/SKILL.md.
1---2name: frontmatter-guard-23description: Injects the canonical vault frontmatter schema snippet into agent prompts before any vault-write task, preventing malformed YAML frontmatter in Obsidian notes. <example>Context: wave-executor is about to dispatch a vault-mirror agent that writes learning notes under ~/Projects/vault/40-learnings/. user: "dispatch vault-write agent" assistant: "Injecting frontmatter-guard snippet into agent prompt (vault scope detected). Required fields: id, type, created, updated. Enum type: note|daily|project|person|reference|idea|learning|session." <commentary>The wave-executor pre-dispatch hook calls detectVaultTaskScope() — the fileScope contains /Projects/vault/40-learnings/ so the guard triggers and the snippet is prepended to the agent system prompt.</commentary></example>4---56# frontmatter-guard78Canonical skill: `skills/frontmatter-guard/SKILL.md`910Read that file and follow it exactly. Resolve relative links against `skills/frontmatter-guard/`, not this wrapper.1112Cursor has no Skill tool. Treat "invoke the frontmatter-guard skill" as: Read `skills/frontmatter-guard/SKILL.md`.
Run npx skillmds@latest add kanevry/frontmatter-guard-2 in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.
Injects the canonical vault frontmatter schema snippet into agent prompts before any vault-write task, preventing malformed YAML frontmatter in Obsidian notes. <example>Context: wave-executor is about to dispatch a vault-mirror agent that writes learning notes under ~/Projects/vault/40-learnings/. user: "dispatch vault-write agent" assistant: "Injecting frontmatter-guard snippet into agent prompt (vault scope detected). Required fields: id, type, created, updated. Enum type: note|daily|project|person|reference|idea|learning|session." <commentary>The wave-executor pre-dispatch hook calls detectVaultTaskScope() — the fileScope contains /Projects/vault/40-learnings/ so the guard triggers and the snippet is prepended to the agent system prompt.</commentary></example> It is listed under AI & ML on SkillMD.
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