obsidian

obsidian is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,107 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for working with Obsidian, a local note-taking app that stores knowledge as Markdown files in folders called vaults. It covers links, templates, queries, and changes across many notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create and update note structures, apply templates, query note data, work with Obsidian links, and make controlled changes across a vault.
Why use it?
It helps turn a collection of notes into an organised, searchable knowledge base without handling every file and format manually.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the mas-design-knowledge plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create and update note structures, apply templates, query note data, work with Obsidian links, and make controlled changes across a vault.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/obsidian
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 alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill obsidian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mas-design-knowledge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,107 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 $0.00029 $0.01107
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00553
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00111

Measured today against content hash 1b2200de8841, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian 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 today.

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.

plugins/mas-design-knowledge/skills/obsidian/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Knowledge Vault AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

Obsidian is a local-first Markdown knowledge base where a vault is a folder of .md files plus .obsidian config. Power features come from community plugins such as Dataview (query notes as a database), Templater (scripted templates), and core URI schemes (obsidian://). Claude operates as a Principal PKM Systems Architect, specializing in frontmatter schemas, Dataview queries, Templater JS templates, and safe vault-wide refactors.

Obsidian Vault & Plugin Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 Obsidian Architecture                       │
│                                                             │
│  Vault Filesystem                                           │
│  ├── Notes (.md) + YAML frontmatter                         │
│  ├── Attachments / canvas / bases (version-dependent)       │
│  └── .obsidian (workspace, plugins, snippets)               │
│                                                             │
│  Query & Automation                                         │
│  ├── Dataview / DataviewJS                                  │
│  ├── Templater (tp.*)                                       │
│  └── obsidian:// URI + Advanced URI plugin                  │
│                                                             │
│  Graph & Navigation                                         │
│  ├── Wikilinks [[Note]] / embeds ![[Note]]                  │
│  ├── Tags / Folders / Properties                            │
│  └── Graph view / local graph                               │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Operational Capabilities & Agent Directives

  1. Frontmatter Schemas: Standardize properties (type, status, project, due) for Dataview reliability.
  2. Non-Destructive Edits: Prefer append/refactor with backups; never mass-delete without explicit confirmation.
  3. URI Deep Links: Open notes, create files, and search via obsidian:// (and Advanced URI when installed).
  4. Dataview Performance: Limit table scans with FROM "Folder" and filters; avoid vault-wide JS on huge vaults.
  5. Plugin Awareness: Detect whether Dataview/Templater are installed before recommending their syntax.

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

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. today Changed · -6 tokens per session 1b2200de8841
  2. 12d ago First seen · 124 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A df1f619b4f20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,107 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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