Tutor Skills

What Is This?

Overview

Tutor Skills is a specialized skill set built on the Roundtable02 framework that converts raw documentation, codebases, and technical content into structured Obsidian StudyVaults. The tool processes source material and produces interconnected Markdown notes, flashcard-style review files, and interactive quiz prompts that integrate directly with the Obsidian knowledge management application. This approach bridges the gap between passive reading and active learning by transforming static content into a navigable study environment.

The conversion pipeline analyzes input content, identifies key concepts, relationships, and terminology, then organizes the output into a vault structure that leverages Obsidian features such as backlinks, tags, and graph view. Each generated note connects to related concepts, allowing learners to explore topics through association rather than linear progression. Quiz files use a question-and-answer format compatible with community plugins like Obsidian Spaced Repetition.

The skill operates through a command-line interface and accepts a variety of input formats including Markdown files, plain text, source code directories, and API documentation. Output is a ready-to-open Obsidian vault folder containing organized notes, a topic index, and review materials calibrated to the complexity of the source content.

Who Should Use This

• Software developers who want to internalize a new codebase or library by converting its documentation into a personal study system
• Technical writers and documentation engineers who need to validate that their content is learnable and well-structured
• Students and self-learners working through complex technical subjects such as algorithms, system design, or programming languages
• Engineering managers onboarding new team members who want to provide structured learning materials derived from internal documentation
• Researchers and knowledge workers who accumulate large volumes of reference material and need a systematic review method
• Educators building course supplements from existing technical resources without manually authoring every note

Why Use It?

Problems It Solves

• Raw documentation is difficult to study because it is written for reference, not learning, making it hard to retain information after a single read
• Codebases lack pedagogical structure, so developers reading source code have no guided path through concepts or dependencies
• Manually creating flashcards and study notes from technical content is time-consuming and often inconsistent in quality
• Learners using Obsidian must spend significant effort building vault structure before they can begin studying, delaying actual learning
• Teams lack a repeatable process for converting internal wikis or runbooks into training materials for new hires

Core Highlights

• Automated vault generation from documentation directories or single files
• Spaced repetition compatible quiz files using standard question-and-answer syntax
• Bidirectional linking between concept notes for graph-based exploration
• Tag taxonomy generated from source content structure and terminology
• Support for code-heavy input including annotated source files and README collections
• Configurable output depth controlling note granularity from summary to detailed
• Index note generation providing a single entry point into the vault
• Preservation of code blocks and technical examples within study notes

How to Use It?

Basic Usage

Install the skill and run the conversion command against a documentation folder:

pip install tutor-skills
tutor-skills convert ./docs --output ./my-studyvault --format obsidian

Open the generated folder as a vault in Obsidian using File, Open Folder as Vault.

Specific Scenarios

Scenario 1: Converting a Python library's documentation Point the tool at a cloned repository containing a docs folder and source files. The skill extracts module descriptions, function signatures, and usage examples, then produces one note per major concept with quiz questions testing parameter usage and return values.

tutor-skills convert ./requests/docs --depth detailed --tags library,python

Scenario 2: Onboarding documentation for a new team member Feed internal runbooks and architecture decision records into the tool to produce a structured vault covering system components, deployment procedures, and key terminology.

Real-World Examples

A backend engineer learning a new message queue system converts the official documentation into a vault, then uses the spaced repetition plugin to review configuration options and error codes over two weeks before implementing the system in production.

A bootcamp instructor converts a public algorithms textbook into a StudyVault and shares the vault folder with students as a supplement to lectures.

Important Notes

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or higher installed on the host machine
• Obsidian desktop application for viewing and interacting with generated vaults
• Source content must be in a readable text format such as Markdown, plain text, or annotated source code
• Sufficient disk space for vault output, which can expand to several times the size of the source material depending on depth settings