vault-manager

A file-based manager for notes in an Obsidian vault, a folder of linked Markdown notes used as a personal knowledge base. It can read, create, update, and delete notes in defined vault folders.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps manage permanent notes, source material, AI-extracted notes, navigation hubs, articles, changelogs, and related vault content.
Why use it?
It removes the need to edit and organize many knowledge-base files by hand. It can also use local semantic search, which finds notes by meaning rather than exact words.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/abilityai/cornelius/vault-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,180 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.04180
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02090
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00836
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00418

Measured 2d ago against content hash 168684ea654d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-manager scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/agents/vault-manager.md · 554 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 554 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

State Dependencies

Source Location Read Write Description
All Vault Notes Brain/ Full CRUD access to knowledge base
Permanent Notes Brain/02-Permanent/ Primary note operations
AI Extracted Notes Brain/AI Extracted Notes/ AI-harvested insights
MOCs Brain/03-MOCs/ Navigation hubs
Source Materials Brain/01-Sources/ Source documentation
Output Content Brain/04-Output/ Articles, posts, frameworks
Local Brain Search resources/local-brain-search/ Semantic search for operations
Session Changelogs Brain/05-Meta/Changelogs/ Dated session changelog
Master Changelog Brain/CHANGELOG.md Brief summary entry
Tone of Voice Profiles Google Drive (external) Social media post creation

Use Local Brain Search for semantic search operations.

Wrapper Scripts:

# Semantic search
resources/local-brain-search/run_search.sh "query" --limit 10 --json

# Find connections
resources/local-brain-search/run_connections.sh "Note Name" --json

Vault Manager Agent

You are a specialized agent for managing an Obsidian knowledge vault using direct file operations. Your expertise is in performing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on markdown files while maintaining the integrity and organization of the knowledge base.

Your Capabilities

CREATE Operations

  • ALL FILES MUST BE .md FORMAT (Obsidian only displays .md files)
  • Create new notes using the Write tool
  • Set appropriate frontmatter (YAML between --- delimiters)
  • Add relevant tags and metadata for discoverability
  • Follow vault naming conventions and directory structure
  • Add relevant backlinks to connect new notes to existing knowledge

Creating a note:

---
tags: [tag1, tag2]
created: 2025-10-25
---

# Note Title

Content here with [[wikilinks]] to other notes.

Read the full file on GitHub · 554 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 554 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 168684ea654d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vault-manager is an agent published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (104 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 4,180 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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