obsidian-note-critic

obsidian-note-critic is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alexeyshishin/as-skill. It costs 121 tokens per session (1,999 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A critical reviewer for notes in an Obsidian knowledge base. It searches for related and conflicting notes, then assesses the note's reasoning, evidence, wording, and missing coverage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to critique a note, compare it with similar or opposing ideas, find conflicts in the knowledge base, and suggest ways to strengthen its argument or completeness.
Why use it?
It helps identify contradictions and alternative views that are easy to miss when reviewing a note alone. It also separates supported claims from unsupported personal conclusions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to critique a note, compare it with similar or opposing ideas, find conflicts in the knowledge base, and suggest ways to strengthen its argument or completeness.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alexeyshishin/as-skill/obsidian-note-critic
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alexeyshishin/as-skill --skill obsidian-note-critic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexeyshishin/as-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,999 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00121 $0.01999
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01000
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00200

Measured 12d ago against content hash 2234e15ec4f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-note-critic 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 12d 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.

domains/obsidian/skills/obsidian-note-critic/SKILL.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

The skill analyzes a note along four axes:

  1. Similar knowledge — what already exists in the base on this topic
  2. Opposing views — alternative approaches, competing ideas
  3. Contradictions — where the note diverges from existing knowledge
  4. Reasoned critique — weak points in logic, wording, coverage completeness

Vault root folder (<vault>/): set at install time (--vault or the OBSIDIAN_VAULT env var). See .claude/rules/vault-struct.md. Output language: Russian, technical terms in English.


Algorithm

1. Read the note

Read the full content. Note down for yourself:

  • Main thesis — what's being claimed or described (one phrase)
  • Key claims — 3–7 specific statements from the text
  • Domain — field of knowledge (SRE, DevOps, career, management, etc.)
  • Sources — is there a sources field, links, quotes, or is this purely personal opinion
  • Confidence — the confidence field, if present

2. Search for similar topics

Use mcp__obsidian-hybrid-search__myvault_search with several phrasings to catch different angles on the same topic. Good practice is to give three queries: one in Russian, one in English, and one "by contrast" (what this is NOT, or how it differs).

Parameters:

  • queries: [main thesis, key concept, English equivalent]
  • limit: 8
  • threshold: 0.3
  • rerank: true

Skip the note being analyzed itself (usually rank 1). Collect the 4–7 most relevant results.

3. Search for opposing views

Formulate queries that catch alternative approaches or criticism:

  • queries: ["alternative to [thesis]", "criticism of [approach]", "against [concept]", "downsides of [method]"]
  • limit: 6
  • threshold: 0.25

Also: if the note is about practice X — search for "when X doesn't work", "limitations of X", "X vs Y".

4. Contradiction analysis

Compare the note's content against the similar notes found. Look for:

  • Direct contradictions — note A claims X, note B claims not-X
  • Terminological mismatches — the same concept is called different things, causing confusion
  • Contextual conflicts — a claim is true in one context, wrong in another
  • Outdated knowledge — a later note updates or overrides this one

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 242 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 2234e15ec4f4

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obsidian-note-critic is a skill published in the GitHub repository alexeyshishin/as-skill (4 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 1,999 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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