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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rileygramlich/obsidian-gateWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/rileygramlich/obsidian-gate/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once 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 |
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.
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
npm version <patch|minor|major>— updatesmanifest.jsonandversions.jsongit push --follow-tags— the release workflow builds and attachesmain.js,manifest.json,styles.css- 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.jsbundles everything except Node builtins andobsidian; the MCP protocol is implemented directly rather than via the SDK to keep the bundle small and reviewable. - Build DOM with
createEl/createSpan/setText. NeverinnerHTML— the community-plugin review rejects it. - Style with Obsidian's CSS variables in
styles.css, not inline styles. src/vault.tsis the only file that may import fromobsidianfor 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.
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.
- 2mo ago Changed · +15 lines · +305 tokens per session 8176b4af0fc2
- 2mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A 085a98d3f0bd
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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