thirdspace-vault-template

ThirdSpace Vault Template is a ready-to-clone knowledge base starter for people who want an AI assistant to manage their notes and documents for them. The idea is that instead of manually filing and organizing information, you describe what you want to an AI coding agent and the agent does the filing, linking, and retrieval on your behalf. The template is designed to work with any of the major AI coding agents, including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, and several others.

The structure follows a numbered folder system common in personal knowledge management: an inbox for anything unclassified, a daily journal folder, a knowledge-card folder, a project folder, a resources folder for attachments, an output folder for published work, and an archive. A hidden configuration directory at the root serves as the anchor point that tells AI agents this folder is a knowledge base rather than a code project. The template ships with sixteen built-in agent skills, which are named commands the AI can run for specific tasks: initializing the vault, writing a work log entry, generating a weekly or monthly review, drafting an article, and organizing knowledge cards, among others.

Setup starts by cloning the repository and then asking any supported AI agent to initialize the vault. The agent reads the configuration files, installs the appropriate hooks for your operating system and agent platform, registers scheduled tasks, and makes the skills available globally, all without manual configuration steps. There are no hardcoded file paths, so the vault works from any directory on any machine.

An optional Obsidian plugin called ThirdSpace Dashboard is bundled in the repository. Obsidian is a popular note-taking application that can open the vault as a graph of linked notes. The plugin adds a dashboard with file statistics, a GitHub-style activity heatmap, a to-do manager, and quick-action buttons. The plugin is not required for the AI-agent workflow to function. The license is MIT.