Knowledge Base & Task Gardener FAQs

Question 1

How does the skill handle duplicate content?

Accepted Answer

The Garden skill enforces DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principles by detecting content restated from core documents and recommending its removal or replacement with semantic links.

Question 2

What is digital gardening in this context?

Accepted Answer

Digital gardening refers to the practice of incrementally maintaining and evolving a knowledge base through small, regular edits like weeding dead links and pruning stale content, rather than large, infrequent cleanups.

Question 3

Does this skill delete my personal notes?

Accepted Answer

No, it is designed to preserve user-authored primary documents while only 'composting' or deleting agent-generated temporal logs that have already served their purpose and are captured in version control.

Question 4

Can it fix my task hierarchy automatically?

Accepted Answer

Yes, the skill includes a 'reparent' mode that identifies orphan tasks and maps them to appropriate epics or projects to maintain structural integrity and improve priority tracking.

Question 5

What tools does the Garden skill require?

Accepted Answer

It utilizes standard file system tools like Grep and Glob along with specialized MCP tools (mcp__pkb) to search and manage documents and tasks within a Knowledge Base.

Knowledge Base & Task Gardener

Key Features

Use Cases

Knowledge Base & Task Gardener

Key Features

Use Cases