obsidian-gemini: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md

obsidian-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini. It costs 66 tokens per session (4,745 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for using the Obsidian command-line tool while developing Obsidian plugins. Obsidian is a note-taking app that can be extended with plugins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking plugin state, testing settings and migrations, driving parts of the Obsidian interface, taking screenshots, and testing mobile behavior from a desktop session.
Why use it?
It helps developers inspect a running plugin, reload it after changes, and investigate errors without repeatedly opening separate developer tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on obsidian-gemini 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-gemini configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini. 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/allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini/master/.agents/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,745 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.04745
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.02372
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00949
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00475

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3c4e9cb9d296, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-cli 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 8d 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.

.agents/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md · 466 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 466 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian CLI

The Obsidian CLI (obsidian command) provides direct access to a running Obsidian instance from the terminal. It's invaluable for plugin development — you can reload plugins, inspect state, evaluate expressions, drive the UI (open modals, click, type, screenshot), toggle mobile emulation, and view console output without leaving your editor.

The CLI surface is large (100+ commands) and growing. Run obsidian --help periodically to spot new capabilities, and obsidian <command> --help for per-command flags. This skill documents the parts most useful for plugin work.

When to use this skill

  • Debugging runtime errors during plugin development
  • Verifying plugin state after code changes
  • Testing migration logic or settings changes
  • Inspecting secrets, settings, and vault state
  • Reloading the plugin after a rebuild
  • Viewing console errors without opening DevTools
  • Driving UI surfaces (open modals, click buttons, type into inputs) for automated testing
  • Taking screenshots for regression checks or PR descriptions
  • Testing mobile-only code paths from a desktop session

Quick reference

Plugin development essentials

# Reload the plugin after rebuilding (use after `npm run build` or `npm run dev`)
obsidian plugin:reload id=gemini-scribe

# Enable DevTools debugger (programmatic CDP attach — does NOT open the DevTools window)
obsidian dev:debug on

# Open the Electron DevTools window itself (toggle — see footgun note below)
obsidian devtools

# View recent console output (errors, warnings, logs)
obsidian dev:console
obsidian dev:console level=error
obsidian dev:console level=warn
obsidian dev:console limit=100

# View captured errors
obsidian dev:errors

# Clear console buffer
obsidian dev:console clear

Evaluating expressions

Use eval to run JavaScript against the live Obsidian instance. The expression has access to the full app object.

# Basic eval
obsidian eval code="app.vault.getName()"

# Check plugin is loaded
obsidian eval code="app.plugins.plugins['gemini-scribe'] !== undefined"

# Read plugin settings
obsidian eval code="JSON.stringify(app.plugins.plugins['gemini-scribe'].settings, null, 2)"

# Check the plugin's API key (via SecretStorage getter)
obsidian eval code="app.plugins.plugins['gemini-scribe'].apiKey"

Read the full file on GitHub · 466 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. 8d ago First seen · 466 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 3c4e9cb9d296

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obsidian-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository allenhutchison/obsidian-gemini (523 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 4,745 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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