Connect

Find unexpected connections between two different domains in your vault.

/connect bridges two areas of your vault that normally live in separate silos. It reads across both domains, identifies shared principles and patterns, and surfaces non-obvious links that you can explore or capture as new thinking notes.

Usage

/connect [domain1] [domain2]

Example: /connect leadership systems-thinking

What it does

1. Scan both domains

   Claude finds all vault files related to each domain — notes, daily reflections, research, and context files that touch on either topic.

2. Find bridges

   Claude identifies shared themes, patterns, or tensions between the two domains. These are the places where the same underlying principle appears in different forms.

3. Generate novel connections

   Claude proposes non-obvious links based on evidence from your vault — connections you wouldn’t have found by reading either domain in isolation.

4. Suggest actions

   Claude closes with concrete suggestions: notes to write, experiments to run, or further connections to explore.

The full analysis is saved to thinking/agent-output/ as YYYY-MM-DD-connect-[domain1]-[domain2].md.

Related skills

These skills work well alongside /connect for deeper exploration:

Skill	What it does
/trace	Track how a single idea evolved over time across your vault
/drift	Compare your stated intentions against your actual behavior patterns
/ideas-gen	Generate new ideas by scanning across all vault domains for cross-domain patterns
/graduate	Promote ideas from daily notes to standalone files in thinking/

Use /connect when you sense there’s something interesting between two areas but can’t quite articulate it. The domains don’t need to be obvious candidates — the less obvious the pairing, the more surprising the connections tend to be.