obsidian-gate: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

obsidian-gate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rileygramlich/obsidian-gate. It costs 388 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for Claude Code, covering how to build, test, and publish the Obsidian Gate package to npm, a package registry for JavaScript software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on Obsidian Gate and preparing a new npm release.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the project’s release steps, including checking that the build and tests pass before publishing.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

This is rileygramlich/obsidian-gate's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on obsidian-gate itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything obsidian-gate configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rileygramlich/obsidian-gate. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate

Made for: Claude Code.

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When invoked 388 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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.
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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 $0.00388 $0.00388
Opus 5.5 $0.00155 $0.00155
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00078 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00039 $0.00039

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8176b4af0fc2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-gate CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

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What it actually says

Vault Gate

An Obsidian community plugin that runs an MCP server inside Obsidian. The repo root is the plugin (Obsidian's store requires manifest.json there); server/ holds the older standalone Node CLI, which is independent.

Build

npm install
npm run dev     # watch → main.js
npm run build   # tsc --noEmit + production bundle
npm test        # bundles test/entry.ts, then node --test

Before releasing

  1. npm version <patch|minor|major> — updates manifest.json and versions.json
  2. git push --follow-tags — the release workflow builds and attaches main.js, manifest.json, styles.css
  3. Obsidian's store reads the manifest from the repo root and the assets from the release, so both must carry the same version

Conventions

  • No new runtime dependencies. main.js bundles everything except Node builtins and obsidian; the MCP protocol is implemented directly rather than via the SDK to keep the bundle small and reviewable.
  • Build DOM with createEl/createSpan/setText. Never innerHTML — the community-plugin review rejects it.
  • Style with Obsidian's CSS variables in styles.css, not inline styles.
  • src/vault.ts is the only file that may import from obsidian for runtime values besides the UI files; everything else stays testable in plain Node.

The standalone CLI

server/ is the pre-plugin product: a Node MCP server that reads a vault off disk, with a dashboard and Stripe licensing. It is not built or shipped with the plugin. Its own npm test runs from inside that directory.

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. 2mo ago Changed · +15 lines · +305 tokens per session 8176b4af0fc2
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 085a98d3f0bd

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obsidian-gate CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rileygramlich/obsidian-gate (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 388 tokens to every session, about $0.0016 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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