Obsidian frontmatter inventory: read-only census of the root-and-branch vault

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Every .md parsed (2,519 files, no sampling), parser carrying four controls.
400 distinct keys over 5,867 instances; 68% of notes have no frontmatter at all.

Consumption cross-referenced against 357 dataview/tasks blocks, 23 templates
and all 39 .obsidian configs: 66 keys consumed (62% of instances), 29 written
by template and read by nothing, 305 orphaned. The Compass governance block —
canonical/owner/assurance/change_log/links/related — is in the written-not-read
set on 67-161 notes each.

Method correction recorded in the report: the first template pass matched key
names anywhere in a file containing Templater syntax, which tests whether the
word occurs in prose rather than whether a template writes the key. Redone
against each template's own frontmatter block.

Inventory only — no proposed schema, per the brief.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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David F Glidden

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