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Copilot History Ingest for Obsidian

Mines your GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code session history and distills architecture decisions, debug notes and recurring patterns into Obsidian wiki pages.

AutomationAdvanced★ 3,520⑂ 350AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

  • Scans all three Copilot data locations: ~/.copilot/session-state/ (per-session dirs), ~/.copilot/session-store.db (global SQLite), and GitHub.copilot-chat transcripts under VS Code workspaceStorage.
  • Reads .manifest.json at the vault root to ingest only new or modified sessions (Append mode), or everything on request (Full mode).
  • Processes sources in value order: checkpoints (overview / work_done / technical_details / important_files / next_steps) → session summaries → raw turns → user-saved memory artifacts like plan.md → file-touch patterns and linked commits/PRs/issues.
  • Clusters knowledge by topic instead of by session, routing it to projects/<name>/concepts, projects/<name>/skills, or global concepts/, skills/, entities/, synthesis/.
  • Stamps every page with summary, base_confidence, lifecycle and provenance frontmatter, and updates index.md / log.md / hot.md only through the lock-safe obsidian-wiki memory sync command.
  • Enforces privacy rules: never copy raw transcripts verbatim, skip secrets/tokens, and skip internal reasoning fields entirely.

Who it's for

  • Developers who live in Copilot CLI and don't want hard-won debugging knowledge to vanish with session history.
  • Existing Obsidian knowledge-base users running the companion llm-wiki skill from this repo.
  • Anyone wanting cross-project synthesis pages of recurring patterns and important files.

Example uses

  1. "Just ingest the new Copilot sessions since last time" → diffs against the manifest and writes only the delta.
  2. "Mine patterns across my Copilot sessions" → cross-analyses many sessions into a page like synthesis/common-debugging-patterns.md.
  3. "Capture what I learned about my-project" → resolves the project from repository/cwd, writes architecture notes into projects/my-project/concepts/, and refreshes the project overview page.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the .skills/copilot-history-ingest folder from the GitHub repo Ar9av/obsidian-wiki into my ~/.claude/skills/copilot-history-ingest/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r obsidian-wiki/.skills/copilot-history-ingest ~/.claude/skills/ && cp -r obsidian-wiki/.skills/llm-wiki ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki.git
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy this skill plus its required dependency: cp -r obsidian-wiki/.skills/copilot-history-ingest obsidian-wiki/.skills/llm-wiki ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Configure paths: set OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH in a .env in your working directory (or global config). Optionally set COPILOT_HISTORY_PATH (defaults to ~/.copilot/session-state) and COPILOT_VSCODE_STORAGE_PATH for your OS's VS Code workspaceStorage.
  5. Verify SQLite access: sqlite3 ~/.copilot/session-store.db ".tables"
  6. (Optional) For search indexing, install the qmd CLI and set QMD_WIKI_COLLECTION; if unset, that step is skipped automatically.
  7. Restart Claude Code and ask: "ingest my Copilot session history into Obsidian". Back up your vault before the first run, since the skill writes many pages.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT