obsidian-task

obsidian-task is a command for Claude Code from eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain. It costs 15 tokens per session (570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for adding a task to the correct kanban board in an Obsidian vault. Obsidian is a note-taking app, and a kanban board organizes work as cards moving through columns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create tasks, infer priority and due dates, place cards in the right board column, and create or link a detailed task note when needed.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide manually where a task belongs and which details to record. It can also connect the task with related project, person, and daily notes.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the obsidian-second-brain plugin — 1 skill, 47 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create tasks, infer priority and due dates, place cards in the right board column, and create or link a detailed task note when needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain/obsidian-task
About the project

obsidian-second-brain turns an Obsidian vault into persistent, searchable memory for Claude Code and other command-line coding agents, storing knowledge as linked Markdown notes. It is for developers, founders, writers, and researchers who want agents to retain project context across sessions. Its catalogue entries provide commands, hooks, a plugin, a skill, and instructions for capturing, finding, and maintaining that memory.

eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain · 4,354 stars · on GitHub · eugeniughelbur.github.io

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-second-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 47 commands, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 570 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00570
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00285
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00114
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00057

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2a1f31571f5d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-task 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 8d 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.

commands/obsidian-task.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute /obsidian-task $ARGUMENTS:

  1. Read _CLAUDE.md first if it exists in the vault root
  2. Parse the task from the argument, or pull from recent conversation context if no argument given
  3. Infer: priority (🔴/🟡/🟢), due date, linked project, linked person
  4. Search for the right kanban board - use _CLAUDE.md board list or search the boards folder (resolved per references/folder-map.md)
  5. Add the task card to the correct column (📋 This Week or 📥 Backlog depending on due date)
  6. Create a task note in the tasks folder (resolved per references/folder-map.md - wiki-style wiki/tasks/, Obsidian-style Tasks/) if the task is substantial (more than a one-liner)
  7. Link the task from the relevant project note and today's daily note

AI-first rule: Every note created or updated by this command MUST follow references/ai-first-rules.md - ## For future agent preamble, rich frontmatter (type, date, tags, ai-first: true, plus type-specific fields), recency markers per external claim, mandatory [[wikilinks]] for every person/project/concept referenced, sources preserved verbatim with URLs inline, and confidence levels where applicable. If that path does not resolve from your working directory, search upward for it; if you still cannot read it, say so before writing rather than producing a note that silently skips the rule. The vault is for future agent retrieval - not human reading.

Anti-fabrication: Search exhaustively before claiming any note, person, or file is absent - false absence is the most common failure mode - and never invent facts, entities, or dates (mark unknowns as TBD). See the anti-fabrication and search-completeness hard rules in references/ai-first-rules.md.

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. 8d ago First seen · 26 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2a1f31571f5d

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obsidian-task is a command published in the GitHub repository eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain (4,354 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 570 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.