What is templater-docs?

A reference guide for Obsidian Templater, a plugin that creates notes from reusable templates. It documents commands for dates, files, prompts, frontmatter, the current Obsidian app, web requests, and template execution hooks.

Use it when writing or reviewing templates that insert dates, ask users for values, read note metadata, create or move files, access clipboard content, call web features, or run code through Templater.

It prevents incorrect use of Templater syntax and gives a coding agent the documented behavior to follow when changing templates.

How ABO896/obsidian-university-workflow configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ABO896/obsidian-university-workflow. 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/ABO896/obsidian-university-workflow/main/.claude/skills/templater-docs/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ABO896/obsidian-university-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 837 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00125	$0.00837
Opus 5.5	$0.00050	$0.00335
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00167
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00084

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 2def513cce97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

templater-docs 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (setup-templater-skill.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.claude/skills/templater-docs/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Templater Plugin — Full Documentation

CRITICAL: Read the full docs before writing any code

The complete, official Templater plugin documentation is bundled in this skill:

templater-api.md

Read it fully before writing or modifying any template. Do not rely on training knowledge — the PDF is authoritative.

Modules covered in the docs

Module	Key APIs
`tp.date`	`now`, `tomorrow`, `yesterday`, `weekday` + Moment.js
`tp.file`	`title`, `content`, `folder`, `path`, `cursor`, `create_new`, `move`, `rename`, `include`, `find_tfile`, `exists`, `tags`, `selection`, `creation_date`, `last_modified_date`, `cursor_append`
`tp.frontmatter`	Any frontmatter key: `tp.frontmatter.key` or `tp.frontmatter["key with spaces"]`
`tp.system`	`prompt`, `suggester`, `multi_suggester`, `clipboard`
`tp.web`	`daily_quote`, `random_picture`, `request`
`tp.app`	Full Obsidian app instance — vault, fileManager, metadataCache, commands
`tp.config`	`active_file`, `run_mode`, `target_file`, `template_file`
`tp.hooks`	`on_all_templates_executed`
`tp.obsidian`	TFile, TFolder, `normalizePath`, `htmlToMarkdown`, `requestUrl`
`tp.user`	Custom JS scripts and system command functions

Command types — check the docs for full syntax

Tag	Behaviour
`<% %>`	Output the result
`<%* %>`	Execute JS — use `tR +=` to output
`<%+ %>`	Dynamic — preview mode only
`<% -%>` / `<%- %>`	Trim one newline after/before
`<% _%>` / `<%_ %>`	Trim all whitespace after/before

Why this matters

Never use raw JS when Templater has a native API. Examples of what NOT to do:

new Date().toISOString() → use tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")
window.prompt(...) → use await tp.system.prompt(...)
Manual frontmatter parsing → use tp.frontmatter.key
fetch(...) → use await tp.web.request(...)
app.vault.getName() → use tp.file.folder()

Async functions — always await

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

2mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 2def513cce97

Subscribe to this mod's changes

templater-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository ABO896/obsidian-university-workflow (24 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 837 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

Writing and docs

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