Skills¶

Claude picks a skill automatically when your request matches it, so you just ask in plain words ("move my meeting notes under Projects"). Each skill calls the tools of Trilium Notes' built-in MCP server rather than the ETAPI directly.

Connection¶

trilium-manage-instances: Configures the connection to one or more Trilium Notes instances: add, list or remove them, each registered with claude mcp add. Offered once by the SessionStart hook, in the first session without a configured instance.

Everyday notes¶

trilium-create-note: Creates a plain new note (title, content, type, parent), no template involved.
trilium-delete-note: Deletes a note and its entire subtree of children, after confirming with the user.
trilium-move-note: Moves a note to a different parent (creates a new branch, deletes the old one).
trilium-rename-note: Changes a note's title.
trilium-search-notes: General-purpose note search by title, content, or attributes.
trilium-manage-note-attributes: Add, update, or remove labels and relations on a note.

Journal and export¶

trilium-journal-note: Get or append to the day/week/month/year journal note for a date.
trilium-export-note-subtree: Export a note and its subtree as one readable Markdown document.

Templates¶

trilium-create-note-from-template: Creates a new note from an existing template note (~template relation) and prompts for the template's promoted-attribute values.
trilium-apply-template-to-note: Retroactively attaches an existing note to a template. Mutates the target note's content and children, so it confirms with the user before writing.
trilium-find-template-instances: Searches for notes derived from a given template, optionally filtered by promoted-attribute values.

Knowledge base¶

Building an LLM wiki (Karpathy's pattern: sources in, linked summary, concept, entity and hub pages out) is its own plugin now: trilium-llm-wiki. It can be installed next to this one and uses the same connection.

The sources are in skills/, one SKILL.md per skill.