Obsidian + Claude Code Accountability System is a personal knowledge-management setup that connects long-term goals with projects, reviews, daily notes, and tasks inside Obsidian. People use it to plan work, track progress, and review whether daily activity supports their goals with help from Claude Code. Its catalogue add-ons implement the system's planning, tracking, and review workflows.
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.
npx skills add ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm --skill adoptgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkmWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/adopt)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/adopt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/adopt/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/adopt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/adopt.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Excessive Agency · line 5 Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.02632 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.01053 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00526 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00263 |
Grade A, and why
adopt 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Adopt Skill
Bring Your Own Vault (BYOV) — install the Claude PKM system onto an existing Obsidian vault.
Usage
/adopt # Run from the root of your existing Obsidian vault
When to Use
- You have an existing Obsidian vault and want to add the Claude PKM system
- You don't want to start from the vault template
- You want to keep your current folder structure
Phase 1: Scan Vault Structure
Analyze the existing vault to understand its organization.
Steps
-
List top-level directories using
ls, excluding system dirs (.obsidian,.git,.claude,.trash,.claude-plugin) -
For each directory, gather signals:
- Count
.mdfiles (using Glob) - Check for date-named files (
YYYY-MM-DD*.md) — indicates daily notes - Grep for goal/review/template keywords in filenames and content
- Check for existing
CLAUDE.mdin subdirs — indicates projects
- Count
-
Detect organization method based on signals:
- PARA: Folders named Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives
- Zettelkasten: Numeric-prefixed notes, heavy wiki-linking, flat structure
- Johnny Decimal:
00-09,10-19style folder names - LYT (Linking Your Thinking): Folders named Atlas, Calendar, Cards, Extras, Sources
- Flat: Few folders, most files at root
- Custom: None of the above patterns match
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Present findings to the user:
Vault scan complete! Found 342 notes across 8 folders: Daily/ → 180 notes (date-named — likely daily notes) Projects/ → 45 notes (has CLAUDE.md files — likely projects) Goals/ → 12 notes (contains goal keywords) Templates/ → 8 notes (contains template keywords) Archive/ → 67 notes Inbox/ → 15 notes Resources/ → 10 notes Meeting Notes/ → 5 notes Detected method: PARA-like structure
Phase 2: Map Folders to Roles
Use AskUserQuestion to confirm or correct the detected mappings.
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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 332 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A df1563f2671e
adopt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm (1,884 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,632 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 2026-08-30.
Other skills, from other repositories
hibernate
Save comprehensive state snapshot before extended travel or breaks - enables context recovery weeks/months later.
research-assistant
Deep vault search and synthesis - find what's known before searching externally.
weekly-hygiene
Vault structural maintenance - broken links, stale items, folder mismatches, hygiene report.
wiki-dashboard
Create dynamic, queryable Obsidian dashboard views using Bases or Dataview. Use for auto-updating tables, indexes, or structured views of vault content; not for ordinary question answering.
wiki-switch
List, create, or switch named Obsidian wiki vault profiles under the global config directory. Use when changing the active vault, checking which vault is active, or managing multi-vault profiles.
daily-update
Run or configure the daily wiki maintenance cycle: check source freshness, refresh the index and hot.md, and manage its scheduled 9 AM launchd/systemd/cron reminder. Use for daily or morning wiki refresh or scheduler setup and verification.