obsidian-para

obsidian-para is a skill for Codex from atstaeff/ai-agents. It costs 35 tokens per session (810 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for organizing and maintaining notes in a private Obsidian vault using PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archive. It also accounts for vaults stored on Windows when working from WSL, a Linux environment that runs alongside Windows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover a vault, classify notes, update existing material, preserve links and properties, and propose a note when the vault cannot be accessed.
Why use it?
It avoids writing to the wrong vault or folder and prevents duplicate, disconnected notes. It requires checking existing notes and conventions before making changes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it to discover a vault, classify notes, update existing material, preserve links and properties, and propose a note when the vault cannot be accessed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atstaeff/ai-agents/obsidian-para
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 atstaeff/ai-agents --skill obsidian-para
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/atstaeff/ai-agents

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 810 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 $0.00035 $0.00810
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00324
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00081

Measured 5d ago against content hash 76febdbc4b6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-para 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 5d 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.

skills/obsidian-para/SKILL.md · 48 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 48 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Para

Discover before writing

Confirm the actual vault path, exact Obsidian vault name and existing folder convention from the workspace or user context. Recognize names such as Projects or 01_Projects; do not rename folders to match an example. On WSL, a Windows vault may be mounted under /mnt/c/...; use the accessible filesystem path for edits and the vault name for Obsidian links.

Read the destination note and nearby conventions before changing anything. If access is unavailable, produce a concrete proposed note or patch and state that it has not been applied. Do not claim that this catalog gives automatic access to a vault.

Classify by actionability

Folder Meaning Example
Projects A finite outcome with a completion condition Ship the customer portal
Areas An ongoing responsibility or standard Personal finances; engineering quality
Resources Reusable knowledge or a topic of interest Python patterns; research notes
Archive Material no longer active Completed project; inactive responsibility
  1. Search for an existing relevant note before creating one. Prefer useful links and a focused update over duplicate summaries.
  2. Capture the idea in the existing inbox when its purpose is unclear; classify when there is enough context.
  3. Preserve the user's text, properties, aliases and note identity. Add a small sourced summary and explicit next action where useful.
  4. Keep project status and actionable tasks in the existing project note or linked work record; avoid two manually maintained task lists.
  5. Extract only reusable conclusions from work, including a source link and the date when it affects validity. Do not paste entire chat transcripts by default.

Safe maintenance

Before a move, inspect inbound wikilinks, Markdown links, embeds and relative paths. A plain filesystem move does not trigger Obsidian's automatic link update. Plan and verify link updates, or leave the note in place with an index link. Respect OneDrive synchronization and reread changed files before saving. Do not bulk rename, delete, flatten folders or install community plugins without a specific request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 48 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. 5d ago First seen · 48 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 76febdbc4b6f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-para is a skill published in the GitHub repository atstaeff/ai-agents (3 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 810 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-08.

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