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Install: claude install-skill slogsdon/skills-vault-knowledge
# Skill: /compound [argument]
Show how knowledge about a topic has accumulated and compounded in the vault — from seed insight to current frontier — and whether it's still actively growing.
**Don't:** treat this as a summary of current knowledge — it's a map of how insights built on each other. Don't conflate with /trace; compounding is about accumulation, not evolution of position.
## Steps
1. Parse the argument/topic from Shane's request.
2. Follow [Qwen Protocol](_lib/qwen-protocol.md) with:
- `task`: "Vault access (bash only, no MCP tools): `obsidian search query='TERM' limit=10`, `obsidian read file='Note Name'` (no .md). Show how knowledge about '[argument]' has accumulated and compounded in the vault. What insights build on earlier ones? What's the compounding trajectory?"
- `skill`: "compound"
3. Review Qwen's result, synthesize if needed, and present to Shane.
## Fallback
If Qwen is unavailable:
1. Run `obsidian search query='[argument]' limit=10` via bash to find notes related to the topic
2. Read the relevant notes by running `obsidian read file='[note name]'` via bash for each, ordered chronologically where possible
3. Map the compounding structure:
- What was the seed insight — the first or simplest version of the idea?
- What was added on top? Which later notes build explicitly on earlier ones?
- Where did combining two ideas produce a third that neither implied alone?
- What's the current frontier — the most sophisticated form this know