search-vault

search-vault is a command for Claude Code from Abilityai/cornelius. It costs 12 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A quick search command for an Obsidian vault, which is a folder of linked plain-text notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for a topic, view matching notes, and inspect the most relevant result with surrounding context.
Why use it?
It combines keyword matching with meaning-based search so relevant notes are easier to find even when they use different wording.

Command 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 commands/abilityai/cornelius/search-vault
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/cornelius

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00012 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash fc576a7b2617, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-vault 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/commands/search-vault.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Search the Obsidian vault using both semantic and keyword-based search.

Query

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

  1. Semantic Search - Use mcp__smart-connections__search_notes:

    • Query: $ARGUMENTS
    • Limit: 5 results
    • Threshold: 0.5
  2. Keyword Search - Use Grep:

    • Pattern: $ARGUMENTS
    • Path: /path/to/your/vault
    • Output mode: "files_with_matches" to get file list
    • Then use output mode: "content" with -C flag for context
  3. Retrieve Content - For the top result from semantic search:

    • Use Read tool to get full content

Output Format

# Search Results: "$ARGUMENTS"

## Semantic Matches
[Top 5 notes with similarity scores]

## Keyword Matches
[Top 5 notes with context snippets from Grep]

## Top Result Content
[Full content of the most relevant note]

Keep results concise and actionable. Highlight the most relevant findings.

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. 4d ago First seen · 46 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A fc576a7b2617

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search-vault is a command published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/cornelius (105 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 285 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.