setup

The user wants to configure the obsidian-chronicle plugin. Your job: generate an obsidian-chronicle.json file in either the user-level state dir (the machine-wide default) or the current project (applies only when Claude Code runs under that project tree).

Config is JSON only. The shared resolver hooks/resolve-config.sh reads these files; understand its model before writing:

• Locations (project overrides user, key-by-key):
  • user-level: ${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}/obsidian-chronicle/obsidian-chronicle.json
  • project: nearest .claude/obsidian-chronicle.json found walking up from cwd (not $HOME itself)
• Merge: built-in defaults ← user JSON ← project JSON.
• vaultPath: resolved from project → user → obsidian vault CLI → else nothing is written (the hook skips). No silent ~/obsidian fallback.
• Relative sessionsDir/dailyDir are resolved against vaultPath; a value starting with / or ~ is absolute.

Steps (follow in order, do not skip)

1. Resolve the plugin root and the two candidate destinations

PLUGIN="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(jq -r '.extraKnownMarketplaces["obsidian-chronicle"].source.path // empty' "$HOME/.claude/settings.json" 2>/dev/null)}"
STATE_HOME="${XDG_STATE_HOME:-$HOME/.local/state}"
USER_DEST="$STATE_HOME/obsidian-chronicle/obsidian-chronicle.json"
PROJECT_DEST="$(pwd)/.claude/obsidian-chronicle.json"
echo "plugin=$PLUGIN"; echo "user=$USER_DEST"; echo "project=$PROJECT_DEST"

If $PLUGIN is empty, abort: tell the user to install/register the plugin first.

2. Detect a default vault path

command -v obsidian >/dev/null 2>&1 && obsidian vault 2>/dev/null | awk -F'\t' '$1=="path"{print $2}'

Whatever this prints is the recommended vaultPath. If it prints nothing (no obsidian CLI, or Obsidian not running), fall back to suggesting ~/obsidian and tell the user to confirm/edit it.

3. Ask where to save

Use AskUserQuestion (single-select):

• User-level (<USER_DEST>) — machine-wide default. Recommended. Used for "one vault per computer".
• This project (<PROJECT_DEST>) — applies only under this project tree. Overrides the user-level file key-by-key. Used for a project-local vault / project wiki.