Vault Foundations

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Early file filtering, responsive background work and optional folder-note navigation for your existing vault and native graph.

Version 1.1.3. Published and maintained by ARCXCOVAEL LLC.

Vault Foundations gives folders a place in your graph through small Markdown index notes that link to original documents. Create, edit, move and rename your documents normally. One local background worker keeps configured folder links current; it does not copy your original documents or replace the native graph.

Click Refresh in the status bar from a Markdown note to request native link resolution for loaded notes. This action is available in Free.

For developers and AI workspaces

Use Obsidian to keep project overviews, architecture, decisions, tasks and runbooks connected to your development work. Vault Foundations helps filter unwanted repository noise and, with Full access, maintain configured folder-note navigation. Optional Graph Views adds Overview, Focused Writing and Structure views of those real links.

Watch your repository grow while agents work

Use Obsidian as a live window into the documentation in your repository. Keep a contents note and the native graph open while you or your agents add notes, create folders, move documents and update links, so you can see the project take shape.

Obsidian displays changes to included vault files. With Vault Foundations Full navigation enabled, configured folder tables of contents, the root index and optional Home navigation refresh automatically as eligible files are added, moved or removed. Their real Markdown links let the native graph and optional Graph Views Structure view grow with your project. You do not need to reopen the vault for each update.

Updates are batched rather than guaranteed to appear instantly. Native file detection and indexing affect visibility; a 60-second catch-up pass covers missed events while Obsidian is open, and reopening catches up later. Only included, eligible content participates: the graph follows notes and links and does not automatically turn every code file or filesystem folder into a node. Free keeps native note viewing and existing generated links available; automatic navigation upkeep requires active Full access.

Your preferred AI can assist with notes, repositories and plugin setup through the file or app tools you choose to provide. For bulky repositories or duplicate-looking nodes, investigate full paths first; use targeted exclusions and focused views before approved, backed-up cleanup. Different notes, legitimate clones and worktrees must not be merged just because their labels match.

The included GUIDE.md → For developers and AI workspaces provides a reusable setup prompt, a small-project starting workflow and safe decluttering practices. Check current compatibility and your assistant’s actual permissions; no AI control bridge is bundled with either plugin.

Recommended companion: Graph Views

For a richer experience, we recommend using Vault Foundations with Graph Views, also created and maintained by ARCXCOVAEL LLC. Vault Foundations keeps configured folder and document links current; Graph Views helps you explore and shape the presentation of those same connections on the native graph.

Use Overview for the wider admitted vault, Focused Writing around the notes you are working on, and Structure to follow the real links in your chosen contents or index note. Shared branches, cross-links and backlinks remain part of your vault. You can choose your own writing outline as the root rather than use the directory index.

Graph Views is a separate, optional, free public beta under MPL-2.0. Install and enable it separately; it is not bundled or required, and neither product changes the other's license or access. Both work with the native graph. Large graphs can still be expensive; this recommendation is about navigation and presentation, not a guaranteed speed increase. See the guide for the paired setup and exact compatibility.

Free protections and full navigation

Early exclusions, bounded performance controls, status/recovery and access to existing notes and folder links remain available without a purchase. Full access adds ongoing automatic folder-index and root/Home navigation upkeep.

Full includes one 30-day evaluation per account, beginning only after sign-in, acceptance of the presented terms and Start 30-day trial. Downloading, signing in and earlier private testing do not consume it. Reinstalling, changing devices or vaults, reconnecting and updating do not restart the original trial. No payment card, automatic charge or subscription is created. After expiry, new automatic navigation pauses; your notes, existing folder indexes, annotations, links, editing and Free protections remain available.

One purchased Full license covers one named person, for personal or internal business use, across that person's authorized devices and vaults. It grants permanent 1.x use and all released 1.x updates; future major upgrades are optional. It does not promise indefinite development or compatibility with every future host version. One-time USD catalog prices are $5.70 for eligible founders and $8.92 regular, with applicable tax added separately. The authorized checkout shows the final seller, currency, price, tax and total before payment. There is no automatic charge or subscription.

The founders countdown begins only when Obsidian formally accepts Vault Foundations into Community Plugins, using three UTC calendar months from that verified acceptance. We will publish the exact start and cutoff timestamps. Payment-provider approval, portal launch, downloads, sign-in and enrollment do not start it. Founders pricing remains available while acceptance/cutoff is pending once purchases are enabled. An original trial started before the cutoff retains founders pricing through the later of the cutoff or that original 30-day trial deadline. An already-open, server-created checkout retains its quoted price if completed later.

Purchases and backups

All sales are final. We do not offer discretionary refunds, including change-of-mind refunds. Use the 30-day trial to evaluate compatibility, performance and suitability before purchasing. This policy does not limit any refund or other remedy required by applicable law.

Maintain current, independent backups of your vault, notes and configuration, and verify that you can restore them before enabling automated navigation, changing exclusions, moving generated-output locations or updating the plugin. Local recovery files are an additional safeguard, not a substitute for your own backup. This responsibility does not waive rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Installation and first use

Use the official authorized release assets. A Community listing is not required for manual installation; this guide does not claim directory acceptance.

For an authorized package: save your work, keep an ordinary vault backup and close the application normally. Put the package's vault-foundations folder in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ folder, reopen and enable Vault Foundations in Community Plugins. After first enabling it, save your work and restart Obsidian once before checking early filtering. Open its settings, choose exclusions deliberately and preview folder notes before enabling their upkeep. Generic defaults do not assume a Knowledge folder or any particular drive.

Supported Windows desktop versions are 1.14.4, 1.14.5, and 1.15.0. In a standalone Free vault on Windows with Obsidian 1.15.1, clicking Refresh from a Markdown note restored a deliberately stale link without restarting. Unknown hosts deliberately refuse early unfiltered traversal until compatibility is checked. Android, macOS and Linux are not advertised as supported by version 1.1.3.

Required disclosures

• Proprietary software: the product's proprietary portions are licensed under the included agreement. Identified third-party components retain their own permissions and notices. Closed source does not make locally running JavaScript impossible to inspect or modify.
• Account and network: an account and HTTPS checks are required for the trial and initial paid activation. Clerk handles sign-in. The licensing service on ARCXCOVAEL LLC's configured domain checks entitlement and stores account-linked license/trial/consent records. Passwords are not handled by the plugin or licensing service. No notes, vault names, paths, filenames, directory inventories or hardware identifiers are sent by this licensing flow.
• Offline use: a signed trial proof works until its displayed check deadline, never past the original 30-day trial end. The trial end and current check deadline are shown in Licensing. The approved allowance is up to 24 hours after a successful signed check. Purchased 1.x proofs have no recurring renewal expiry. Reconnecting after losing a proof still needs account/service access.
• Outside-vault storage: optional remembered connections use Windows-protected encrypted storage in the application's user-data profile, outside the vault. Apps running as the same Windows user are outside that protection boundary. No credential, password or signing key is written into your notes or ordinary plugin settings.
• Local resource measurements: CPU capacity, available memory and JavaScript heap headroom guide bounded local caches. These measurements stay local; they are not uploaded as plugin telemetry.

Full guide · License · Third-party notices

Support and privacy: [email protected]. Read the Privacy, Sales and Support policies before activation or purchase.

Published and maintained by ARCXCOVAEL LLC. This is an independent third-party plugin, not a first-party product of the host application's developer.

Thank you for downloading Vault Foundations and supporting ARCXCOVAEL LLC. Whether you keep the free edition or choose full access, we appreciate your trust and feedback. We support our users through the published support policy and welcome thoughtful reports that help us improve.

See GUIDE.md → Native graph recall and pause for the candidate behavior and verification limits.