obsidian-vault

obsidian-vault is a skill for Claude Code from arozumenko/sdlc-skills. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A way to manage an Obsidian vault—a folder of Markdown notes with optional metadata—directly from an agent, without opening the Obsidian app.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to save notes, search personal knowledge, process inbox items, and update people, project or meeting records.
Why use it?
It keeps notes, incoming information and follow-up items in a consistent folder structure and makes them searchable by scripts.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sdlc-skills plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to save notes, search personal knowledge, process inbox items, and update people, project or meeting records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arozumenko/sdlc-skills/obsidian-vault
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 arozumenko/sdlc-skills --skill obsidian-vault
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arozumenko/sdlc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin obsidian-vault/plugin install obsidian-vault after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,625 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 $0.00076 $0.02625
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01313
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00263

Measured 11d ago against content hash aa3c6fe08fa4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-vault 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/vault.py), 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.

skills/obsidian-vault/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Vault

Operate the user's Obsidian vault as a queryable second-brain — headlessly. The vault is plain markdown plus YAML frontmatter; the agent reads and writes files directly. Obsidian itself is for the user to browse the result later.

This skill is self-contained and stdlib-only. It pairs well with an agent-internal memory skill (e.g. the memory skill), but doesn't require one:

Where What goes here Who reads it
Agent memory (if any) Short-lived cognition, operational logs The agent
$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/ User-facing knowledge base, signals, contacts The user (in Obsidian); agent files into it

If unsure where something belongs: short-lived agent thought → memory; user might want to read it later → vault.

The CLI is scripts/vault.py. Vault path comes from $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH or --vault; the CLI exits with an error if neither is set. Output is human-readable on stdout; errors → stderr; non-zero exit on failure.

Vault layout

The skill enforces this layout for any note it creates. Existing notes are not migrated.

<vault>/
  inbox/                    # raw, unprocessed signals — landing zone
  daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md       # user-facing daily note (append-only)
  people/                   # one note per contact — the leverage folder
  projects/                 # active projects
  researches/               # deep-dive notes, reading captures
  meetings/                 # synchronous events with attendees + outcomes
  decisions/                # decision log — "why did we do X"
  memories/                 # user-facing long-term memories
  mails/                    # processed email archive
  chats/                    # processed chat snippets (Telegram, Teams, Slack)
  plans/                    # plans, roadmaps, intent docs
  attachments/              # binaries (images, PDFs, audio)
  templates/                # frontmatter templates per note type
  open-loops.md             # active follow-ups (single flat file)
  open-loops-archive/
    YYYY-MM.md              # one file per month, closed loops

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 11d ago First seen · 241 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A aa3c6fe08fa4

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obsidian-vault is a skill published in the GitHub repository arozumenko/sdlc-skills (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,625 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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