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digital-garden-cultivator

Design, manage, and evolve digital gardens as living knowledge bases within memory palaces. Triggers: digital garden, knowledge base, linking, note curation, content lifecycle, garden maintenance, bidirectional links, knowledge evolution Use when: managing note collections, creating link structures, maintaining knowledge bases, tending garden health and growth DO NOT use when: creating memory palace structures - use memory-palace-architect. DO NOT use when: evaluating new knowledge - use knowledge-intake. Consult this skill when cultivating and maintaining digital gardens.

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SKILL.md

Digital Garden Cultivator

Design, manage, and evolve digital gardens as living knowledge bases. Digital gardens are interconnected note collections that grow organically, emphasizing evolution over perfection.

What It Is

A digital garden approach to knowledge management that:

  • Builds dynamic knowledge bases that evolve over time
  • Connects notes through bidirectional links
  • Incubates ideas before formalizing as documentation
  • Creates discovery paths for information navigation
  • Tracks content maturity and maintenance needs

Quick Start

Calculate Garden Metrics

bash
python scripts/garden_metrics.py path/to/garden.json --format brief

Output Formats

  • json - Full metrics as JSON
  • brief - One-line summary
  • prometheus - Prometheus exposition format

When to Use

  • Building dynamic knowledge bases that evolve over time
  • Connecting notes, skills, and palaces through bidirectional links
  • Incubating ideas before formalizing as documentation
  • Creating discovery paths for navigating information
  • Managing content lifecycle (seedling → growing → evergreen)

Content Maturity Levels

Level Status Description
Seedling New/rough Early ideas, incomplete thoughts
Growing Developing Being actively refined
Evergreen Mature Stable, well-developed content

Core Workflow

  1. Collect Sources - Gather notes, bookmarks, ideas
  2. Plan Structure - Define garden organization
  3. Create Links - Build bidirectional connections
  4. Schedule Maintenance - Establish tending cadence
  5. Document Outputs - Convert mature ideas to formal docs

Garden Layout Template

yaml
garden:
  sections: ["research", "patterns", "experiments"]
  plots:
    - name: "My First Note"
      purpose: "reference"  # reference | evergreen | lab
      maturity: "seedling"  # seedling | growing | evergreen
      inbound_links: []
      outbound_links: []
      last_tended: "2025-11-24T10:00:00Z"

Maintenance Cadence

Action Frequency Purpose
Quick prune Every 2 days Remove dead links, fix typos
Stale review After 7 days inactive Assess content freshness
Archive After 30 days inactive Move to archive or delete

Success Metrics

  • Link density - Average links per piece of content
  • Bidirectional coverage - % of links that are reciprocal
  • Freshness - Time since last update per area
  • Maturity ratio - Evergreen content / total content

Detailed Resources

  • Linking Patterns: See modules/linking-patterns.md
  • Maintenance Guide: See modules/maintenance.md
  • Metrics Integration: See modules/metrics-integration.md

Integration

  • memory-palace-architect - Host garden within palace structure
  • knowledge-locator - Search garden content
  • session-palace-builder - Seed garden from session insights

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