okr/skills/okr-second-brain-search/SKILL.md

---
name: okr-second-brain-search
description: >-
  Search the user's personal OKR/organization "second brain" — an OKF-compatible
  markdown wiki under .claude/okr/ (project) and ~/.claude/okr/org/ (home) — to
  retrieve the right strategic, governance, or cycle context on demand, in free
  chat and during /okr:* commands, without pre-injecting everything. Use whenever
  the user refers to their own goals, tildelingsbrev, strategy, steering signals,
  or a previous cycle and the answer likely lives in their wiki rather than the
  prompt. Triggers on: "våre mål", "overordnede mål", "mål dette tertialet",
  "tertialmål", "tildelingsbrev", "hva sier OKR-ene våre", "forrige syklus",
  "strategi", "styringssignaler".
version: "1.6.1"
---

# OKR Second-Brain Search

Retrieve the *right* personal/organizational OKR context at the *right* moment by
searching a user-owned, OKF-compatible markdown wiki with native tools only —
**Glob, Read, Grep**. No MCP, no search engine, no pre-injection. This is the
on-demand counterpart to the `inject-okr-context` hook: the hook emits only a
tiny pointer; this skill does the actual retrieval when the conversation needs it.

## When to use

Activate when the user references their own goals, governance documents, strategy,
or prior cycles — in free chat **or** under an `/okr:*` command — and the answer
plausibly lives in their wiki rather than in the prompt. Typical Norwegian cues
are listed in `Triggers on:` above ("våre mål", "tildelingsbrev", "forrige
syklus", "styringssignaler", …). Do **not** activate for generic OKR methodology
questions — those belong to the `okr-offentlig-sektor` skill.

## The two bundle roots

The second brain lives in **two roots with different lifecycles**; always search
both, project first:

1. **Project bundle** — `.claude/okr/` in the current working directory
   (cycle/work data, cwd-bound): `strategisk-kontekst/`, `syklus/<id>/`,
   `historikk/`, `dokumenter/`.
2. **Home bundle** — `~/.claude/okr/org/` (organization identity, survives
   reinstall).

Each root carries its own `index.md` per level and an `okf_version` marker on its
root `index.md`. Project content overrides home content on conflict
(most-specific-wins, mirroring the hook's resolution).

## OKF layout (what you are searching)

The wiki follows the Knowledge Catalog **"Documents / `kb` Layout"** ("Metadata as
Code"). Each **concept file** carries YAML frontmatter in this field order:

```yaml
---
type: Tildelingsbrev          # Title-Case human string; the only de-facto required field
resource: https://…           # URL/path to the source
title: …
description: …
tags:                         # YAML list (multi-line) — optional
- styring
timestamp: '2026-01-15T09:00:00+00:00'   # ISO-8601, quoted
---
# Heading
…body…
```

`type` values you will encounter: `Tildelingsbrev`, `OKR`, `Retrospektiv`,
`Organisasjonsprofil`, `Virksomhetsplan`, `Status` (and occasionally others —
treat unknown types as valid, never error on them).

Each level has an **`index.md`** with **no frontmatter**, formatted as a heading
plus one bullet per concept file:

```
# Heading
* [title](relative.md) - description
```

The `index.md` is the curated table of contents for its level — use it to
navigate and to break ranking ties (below).

## Retrieval procedure

Use the native file tools as a retrieval triad — **Glob** (list) / **Read** (open)
/ **Grep** (search) — together with semantic decomposition (the `discovery`
pattern: expand the query before searching rather than grepping verbatim). Concretely:

1. **Locate & navigate.** Glob both roots — the project root `.claude/okr/**/*.md`,
   and the home root `<HOME>/.claude/okr/org/**/*.md` (expand `~` to the absolute
   home path first — the Glob tool does **not** expand a literal `~`). Read each
   level's `index.md` first to understand what exists before reading any concept file.
2. **Semantic decomposition** — *do not* grep the user's words verbatim. Generate
   **up to 3 query variations** and search all of them:
   - **(i) Direct + synonyms** — the literal term plus close synonyms
     (e.g. "mål" → "mål", "objective", "OKR").
   - **(ii) Domain translation** — map everyday phrasing to the domain/governance
     vocabulary actually written in the files (e.g. "hva må vi levere" →
     "tildelingsbrev", "styringssignal"; "forrige runde" → "retrospektiv",
     "historikk").
   - **(iii) Broader category** — fall back to the `type:` or the containing level
     (e.g. search `type: OKR` under `syklus/`, or `type: Tildelingsbrev` under
     `strategisk-kontekst/`).
3. **Grep** each variation across the concept files (token in body/frontmatter,
   or `type:` for category queries). Exclude `index.md` from concept matches.
4. **Merge, dedup, and rank.** Combine the hits from all variations, dedup by
   path, then rank by this **deterministic tie-break**:
   - **+2** if the token appears in the file's **frontmatter** (`title`/`type`/`tags`).
   - **+1** if the token appears in the file's entry in the nearest **`index.md`**.
   - On equal score, the file listed **earlier in its `index.md`** wins; final ties
     break by path order.
   This is exactly the ranking the regression test (`tests/okf-retrieval.test.mjs`)
   pins: a frontmatter/index match outranks a body-only match, so a shared token
   resolves to the concept that *names* it rather than one that merely mentions it.
5. **Read only the top concept file(s)** — usually one. Do not bulk-read the tree;
   the point is selective retrieval. Cite the file path you used.

### Robustness

- **Dangling links** in an `index.md` (a bullet pointing at a missing file): skip
  silently, never fail.
- **Unknown `type:`**: accept it; rank and read as normal.
- **Empty/greenfield wiki**: if neither root exists or has concept files, say so
  briefly and proceed from the prompt — never fabricate wiki content.

## Trigger smoke-test (Assumption 1 — manual)

Skill activation is model-judged, not unit-testable. Verify it manually:

- **`/doctor`** — confirm `okr-second-brain-search` is listed and its
  `description` is not trimmed by the skill-listing budget. If trimmed, raise
  `skillListingBudgetFraction` (the `Triggers on:` phrases are placed early in the
  description precisely so the highest-signal cues survive trimming).
- **Free-chat probe** — with a populated `.claude/okr/`, send a prompt with **no**
  `/okr:*` command, e.g. *"Hva sier tildelingsbrevet vårt om mål dette tertialet?"*
  The skill should activate and retrieve from `strategisk-kontekst/` and
  `syklus/<id>/` without being told where to look.
- **Fallback** — if activation does not fire, the `inject-okr-context` hook still
  emits a deterministic pointer to the resolved `index.md`, and any `/okr:*`
  command can invoke this skill explicitly. Retrieval degrades, it does not break.

## Resources

- **Wiki data (project):** `.claude/okr/` — `strategisk-kontekst/`, `syklus/<id>/`,
  `historikk/`, `dokumenter/`, each with an `index.md`.
- **Wiki data (home):** `~/.claude/okr/org/` — organization profile bundle.
- **Index/check tooling:** `scripts/okf-index.mjs` (regenerate `index.md` per root)
  and `scripts/okf-check.mjs` (validate every concept file has `type:`).
- **Companion skill:** `okr-offentlig-sektor` for OKR methodology (writing,
  scoring, cascading) — this skill only *retrieves* the user's own context.