om-vault-upgrade

A command for moving notes and other content from an existing Obsidian vault into an obsidian-mind vault. Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores linked Markdown files in a folder called a vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking a source vault, creating a migration plan, classifying files, and carrying out the approved import; it also supports a dry run that plans the migration without executing it.
Why use it?
It avoids manually copying and reorganizing an old vault when upgrading obsidian-mind or adopting its structure.

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/breferrari/obsidian-mind/om-vault-upgrade
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/breferrari/obsidian-mind

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,654 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 $0.00000 $0.02654
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01327
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00531
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00265

Measured yesterday against content hash 62ec81b06025, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

om-vault-upgrade 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 yesterday.

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:

  • upgrade — 92% identical, 40 lines differ
.claude/commands/om-vault-upgrade.md · 187 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 187 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Vault Upgrade

Import and migrate content from an existing Obsidian vault into this obsidian-mind instance. Works with older obsidian-mind versions and arbitrary Obsidian vaults.

When to use: After downloading or cloning the latest obsidian-mind template, to pull in your existing vault content. Also works for migrating any Obsidian vault into the obsidian-mind structure.

Usage

/om-vault-upgrade <path-to-source-vault>
/om-vault-upgrade <path-to-source-vault> --dry-run
/om-vault-upgrade --source <path-to-source-vault>
/om-vault-upgrade --source <path-to-source-vault> --dry-run

Arguments:

  • <path-to-source-vault> — absolute or relative path to the vault to migrate FROM (positional or via --source)
  • --dry-run — generate the migration plan without executing it (saves to thinking/)

Subagents

  • vault-migrator — classifies files (for arbitrary vaults) and executes the approved migration plan

Workflow

1. Validate & Detect

  1. Parse the source vault path from the user's input. Resolve relative paths.
  2. Verify the source path exists and is different from the current vault.
  3. Verify the source path contains .md files (is it actually a vault?).
  4. Check for vault-manifest.json in the source:
    • Found: read version directly. This is a known obsidian-mind vault.
    • Not found: run version fingerprint detection from the target's vault-manifest.json:
      • Check for claude/Memories.md without brain/ → v1
      • Check for brain/ + bases/ without .claude/agents/ → v2
      • Check for .claude/agents/ → v3.x (refine by checking for specific files)
      • None match → arbitrary vault (not from obsidian-mind)
  5. For arbitrary vaults, also detect the vault's organizational pattern (PARA, Zettelkasten, daily notes, flat, MOC-based, inbox). This shapes how the classifier interprets folder structure. Common patterns:
    • PARA: Projects/ + Areas/ + Resources/ + Archive/
    • Zettelkasten: Permanent/ + Fleeting/ + Literature/, or many numeric-ID filenames
    • Daily Notes: daily/ or journal/ folder with date-named files
    • Flat: 80%+ of files in vault root
    • MOC-based: files named MOC - *.md or Index - *.md
  6. Report detection result to the user: "Detected obsidian-mind v2" or "This looks like a PARA-organized Obsidian vault — I'll map Projects → work/active, Resources → reference, etc." or "This is a flat vault with no folder structure — I'll classify each note by its content."

Read the full file on GitHub · 187 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. yesterday First seen · 187 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 62ec81b06025

Subscribe to this mod's changes

om-vault-upgrade is a command published in the GitHub repository breferrari/obsidian-mind (4,586 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,654 tokens. 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.