A skill your agent uses when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Obsidian Research Log

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill obsidian-research-log -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills obsidian-research-log --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-research-log .claude/skills/obsidian-research-log && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
obsidian-research-log
GitHub stars
4.6k
Token cost
~378 tokens
SKILL.md length
163 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
383
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes…

  • The user is discussing daily research work
  • SKILL.md covers Role in the workflow, Default targets, Rules and Main judgment rule
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • General project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes

What it does

Obsidian Research Log is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use this skill when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes, plan notes, and hub updates.

Its SKILL.md is about 380 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Meeting notes and agendas, Project management and Note-taking. It works with Obsidian. The repository describes itself as: 🔬 A curated collection of 23,000+ agent skills for empirical research across 8 social science disciplines. | 精选 23,000+ AI Agent 技能库,覆盖8大社会科学学科的实证研究。CoPaper.AI…

When your agent uses it

  • The user is discussing daily research work
  • General project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes

Example prompts

  • “/obsidian-research-log”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9fa87d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Obsidian Research Log loads about 378 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 163 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~60
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~378

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 163 words (~378 tokens).

“Use this skill to keep project planning and daily progress synchronized.”

— opening of SKILL.md by brycewang-stanford, Custom licence
name
obsidian-research-log

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-research-log of brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9fa87d8

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Works with

Questions about Obsidian Research Log

What does Obsidian Research Log do?

A skill your agent uses when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes…. Obsidian Research Log is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills. Use this skill when the user is discussing daily research work, TODOs, plans, standups, meetings, milestones, or general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes, plan notes, and hub updates.

When should I use Obsidian Research Log?

Obsidian Research Log fits situations like: the user is discussing daily research work; general project progress that should be reflected in Obsidian daily notes.

How do I install Obsidian Research Log in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill obsidian-research-log -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-research-log in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .claude/skills/obsidian-research-log in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Obsidian Research Log in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill obsidian-research-log -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-research-log in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills) into .agents/skills/obsidian-research-log in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Obsidian Research Log in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill obsidian-research-log -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/obsidian-research-log, .gemini/skills/obsidian-research-log, .github/skills/obsidian-research-log and .opencode/skills/obsidian-research-log in your project.

What does Obsidian Research Log need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Obsidian Research Log is instructions for the agent only.

Does Obsidian Research Log access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Obsidian Research Log safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Obsidian Research Log use?

Obsidian Research Log has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Obsidian Research Log use?

About 378 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Obsidian Research Log?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Obsidian Research Log: Daily Journal (ravila4/claude-adhd-skills, 158 stars), Granola (ArtemXTech/claude-code-obsidian-starter, 225 stars), Daily Update (Ar9av/obsidian-wiki, 3.5k stars) and Summarize Meetings (harperreed/dotfiles, 334 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Obsidian Research Log?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, which has 4,556 GitHub stars. The repository holds 383 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.