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Agent skill

Obsidian

by steipete in steipete/agent-scripts

Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Obsidian

skills CLI
$ npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill obsidian -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install steipete/agent-scripts obsidian --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/steipete/agent-scripts.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/obsidian .claude/skills/obsidian && 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
GitHub stars
7.3k
Token cost
~916 tokens
SKILL.md length
329 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
45
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas.

  • Works in 3 steps: Prefer asking the user to enable… → If you already confirmed the app config… → Restart Obsidian after changing…
  • Tasks that involve Link building
  • SKILL.md covers Sources, First Checks, Read Workflow and Write Workflow, plus 2 more sections
  • Calls rg and vault

What it does

Obsidian is an agent skill from steipete/agent-scripts. Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas.

Its SKILL.md is about 920 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Link building. It works with Obsidian. The repository describes itself as: Scripts for agents, shared between my repositories. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Link building

Example prompts

  • “/obsidian”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Prefer asking the user to enable Settings -> General -> Advanced -> Command line interface.
  2. If you already confirmed the app config shape, ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json uses "cli": true.
  3. Restart Obsidian after changing app-level CLI config.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 79150cf. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • rg
    • vault

    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 loads about 916 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 19 tokens; SKILL.md has 329 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~19
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~916

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

The full file from steipete/agent-scripts at commit 79150cf, republished under its MIT licence (© steipete). 329 words, ~916 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/obsidian/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
obsidian
description
Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas.

Obsidian

Use this for local Obsidian vault work. An Obsidian vault is a normal folder of Markdown files plus .obsidian/ config.

Sources

  • App config: ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json
  • Default vault name: obsidian
  • Usual local vault path: ~/obsidian
  • Official CLI: obsidian
  • Vault commands resolve the vault from cwd; run them from ~/obsidian.

First Checks

bash
command -v obsidian
obsidian version
obsidian vaults
cd ~/obsidian
obsidian commands filter=search:

Global commands like version and vaults work outside a vault. Vault-content commands may print Vault not found. outside ~/obsidian. Use obsidian commands, not obsidian help, for CLI discovery.

If obsidian says CLI is disabled:

  1. Prefer asking the user to enable Settings -> General -> Advanced -> Command line interface.
  2. If you already confirmed the app config shape, ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json uses "cli": true.
  3. Restart Obsidian after changing app-level CLI config.

Read Workflow

Prefer official CLI for Obsidian-aware lookups:

bash
cd ~/obsidian
obsidian search query="OpenClaw" format=json
obsidian search:context query="OpenClaw" limit=20 format=json
obsidian read path="Folder/Note.md"
obsidian file path="Folder/Note.md"
obsidian outline path="Folder/Note.md" format=json
obsidian backlinks path="Folder/Note.md" format=json
obsidian links path="Folder/Note.md"
obsidian properties path="Folder/Note.md" format=json

Use direct filesystem reads when you already know the path and need exact bytes:

bash
sed -n '1,220p' "$HOME/obsidian/Folder/Note.md"
rg -n "term" "$HOME/obsidian"

Report which source you used when freshness or vault choice matters.

Write Workflow

Choose the narrowest write path:

  • New note: obsidian create path="Folder/Note.md" content="...".
  • Append/prepend daily notes: obsidian daily:append content="...".
  • Simple note edits: use apply_patch on the Markdown file.
  • Rename/move notes: prefer obsidian move path="Old.md" to="Folder/New.md" so links can update.
  • Opening UI after a write: add open only when useful or requested.

Common commands:

bash
cd ~/obsidian
obsidian create path="Notes/New.md" content="# New\n\nBody"
obsidian append path="Notes/New.md" content="More text"
obsidian move path="Notes/New.md" to="Archive/New.md"
obsidian daily:path
obsidian daily:read
obsidian daily:append content="- Follow-up item"

For multi-line content, prefer editing the .md file with apply_patch once the path is known. Avoid fragile shell quoting for long prose.

Bases, Canvas, Plugins

Use CLI discovery first:

bash
cd ~/obsidian
obsidian bases
obsidian base:views path="Projects.base"
obsidian base:query path="Projects.base" view="Active" format=json
obsidian plugins format=json
obsidian plugins:enabled format=json
obsidian commands filter=workspace:

For .canvas, .base, and .json files, read/edit as structured data when possible. Keep formatting stable and validate JSON after edits.

Safety

  • Do not bulk rewrite the vault. Use targeted paths and review diffs.
  • Do not edit .obsidian/ unless the user asks or the task is explicitly settings/plugin work.
  • Do not delete notes unless explicitly asked; prefer trash over permanent delete.
  • Do not create hidden dot-folder notes through the Obsidian URI/CLI path.
  • Preserve frontmatter and wikilinks unless the task is to refactor them.
  • If multiple vaults exist, do not guess; use obsidian vaults and obsidian.json.

© steipete, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/obsidian of steipete/agent-scripts.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 79150cf

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Obsidian next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Obsidian this skillsteipete/agent-scripts7.3k—~916Automated safety check: PassMIT
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Conducty Contextrobertbarclayy/conducty176—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Compressiurykrieger/claude-bedrock1051 repos~9.9kAutomated safety check: WarnMIT
Obsidian Official CLIhashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins1.2k—~2.2kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0

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Questions about Obsidian

What does Obsidian do?

Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas. Obsidian is an agent skill from steipete/agent-scripts. Obsidian vault: search/read/write notes, backlinks, Bases, Canvas.

When should I use Obsidian?

Obsidian fits situations like: tasks that involve Link building.

How do I install Obsidian in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill obsidian -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/obsidian in steipete/agent-scripts) into .claude/skills/obsidian in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Obsidian in Codex?

Run `npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill obsidian -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/obsidian in steipete/agent-scripts) into .agents/skills/obsidian in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Obsidian 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 steipete/agent-scripts --skill obsidian -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, .gemini/skills/obsidian, .github/skills/obsidian and .opencode/skills/obsidian in your project.

What does Obsidian need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Obsidian needs the command-line tools its instructions call (rg and vault).

Does Obsidian 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 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 use?

Obsidian is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Obsidian use?

About 916 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.7k 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?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Obsidian: Webobsidian (xnohat/webobsidian, 268 stars), Obsidian Layout Adjustment (Ar9av/obsidian-wiki, 3.5k stars), Conducty Context (robertbarclayy/conducty, 176 stars) and Compress (iurykrieger/claude-bedrock, 105 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Obsidian?

steipete (a GitHub user) maintains it in steipete/agent-scripts, which has 7,273 GitHub stars. The repository holds 45 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

Source: steipete/agent-scripts on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.