help

help is a command for coding agents from Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent. It costs 17 tokens per session (606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A complete command guide for an Obsidian knowledge assistant, including how to set up a vault, capture notes, ingest materials, and research topics. An Obsidian vault is a folder of linked notes, often written in Markdown.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn the assistant’s commands, see example usage, or get focused help for a specific command.
Why use it?
It gives users a single reference for available actions and examples instead of requiring them to remember command names. It can also explain one requested command in detail.

Command

Part of the obsidian-knowledge plugin — 1 skill, 12 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent

Or install obsidian-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 12 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for help

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/help.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/help)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/help"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/michael-ovo/obsidian-knowledge-agent/help.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 606 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 $0.00017 $0.00606
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7da46988cffb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

help 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.

plugins/obsidian-knowledge/commands/help.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

If $ARGUMENTS names a specific command, explain THAT command in depth — what it does, when to reach for it, and a worked example — then stop. Otherwise present this guide, clean and skimmable (keep the grouping and the examples):

Obsidian Knowledge Agent — what I can do

I turn anything — a link, a stray thought, a PDF, a whole syllabus — into notes worth keeping, and I learn your vault's conventions as we go. Talk to me naturally ("save this", "research X", "organize my inbox") or use a command:

▸ Start here

  • /obsidian-knowledge:setup — set this folder up as a vault. Adapts: scaffolds an empty folder, or adopts an existing vault and fills only the gaps.
  • /obsidian-knowledge:help [command] — this guide. Add a name for detail, e.g. … :help research.

▸ Capture & build

  • /obsidian-knowledge:capture <thing> — save one quick, clean note. e.g. :capture https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
  • /obsidian-knowledge:ingest [what] — build notes from Inbox/ (or what you point at) at the right depth.
  • /obsidian-knowledge:research <topic> — research from the web and write teaching notes with sources. e.g. :research how RoPE positional encoding works
  • /obsidian-knowledge:log <text> — append a timestamped line to today's daily log.

▸ Improve & maintain

  • /obsidian-knowledge:polish [note|folder] — improve existing notes in place (defaults to recently changed).
  • /obsidian-knowledge:refactor <change> — reorganize safely and rewire links. e.g. :refactor split the Transformers note
  • /obsidian-knowledge:doctor [folder] — health check: broken links, orphans, missing frontmatter.
  • /obsidian-knowledge:clean [message] — commit changed notes, clear processed Inbox (with approval), push.

▸ Learn (I improve myself)

  • /obsidian-knowledge:reflect — capture lessons from recent work and propose rule updates.
  • /obsidian-knowledge:evolve — review and approve my proposed rule changes.

Try this first: :setup → drop a source in Inbox/:ingest:polish:reflect.

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 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. 4d ago First seen · 39 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 7da46988cffb

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help is a command published in the GitHub repository Michael-OvO/obsidian-knowledge-agent (207 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 606 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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