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 obsidian-vault-opsgit 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/obsidian-vault-ops)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/obsidian-vault-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/obsidian-vault-ops/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/obsidian-vault-ops"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/obsidian-vault-ops.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00042 | $0.00657 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00329 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00131 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00066 |
Grade A, and why
obsidian-vault-ops 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.
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 — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Obsidian Vault Operations Skill
Core operations for reading, writing, and managing files in an Obsidian vault.
Vault Structure
vault-root/
├── CLAUDE.md # Main context (always read first)
├── Daily Notes/ # YYYY-MM-DD.md format
├── Goals/ # Goal cascade files
├── Projects/ # Project folders with CLAUDE.md
├── Templates/ # Reusable note structures
└── Archives/ # Completed/inactive content
File Operations
Reading Notes
- Use Glob to find files:
*.md,Daily Notes/*.md - Read CLAUDE.md first for vault context
- Check for wiki-links to related notes
Creating Notes
- Check if note already exists
- Use appropriate template if available
- Add YAML frontmatter with date and tags
- Insert wiki-links to related notes
Editing Notes
- Preserve YAML frontmatter structure
- Maintain existing wiki-links
- Use consistent heading hierarchy
- Apply standard tag format
Wiki-Link Format
[[Note Name]] # Simple link
[[Note Name|Display Text]] # Link with alias
[[Note Name#Section]] # Link to section
YAML Frontmatter
Standard frontmatter structure:
---
date: 2024-01-15
tags: [tag1, tag2]
status: active
---
Template Variables
When processing templates, replace:
{{date}}- Today's date (YYYY-MM-DD){{date:format}}- Formatted date{{date-1}}- Yesterday{{date+1}}- Tomorrow{{time}}- Current time
Common Patterns
Daily Note Creation
- Calculate today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format
- Check if
Daily Notes/{date}.mdexists - If not, read
Templates/Daily Template.md - Replace template variables
- Write to
Daily Notes/{date}.md
Finding Related Notes
- Extract key terms from current note
- Search vault for matching content
- Suggest wiki-links to related notes
Tag Operations
- Priority:
#priority/high,#priority/medium,#priority/low - Status:
#active,#waiting,#completed,#archived - Context:
#work,#personal,#health,#learning
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 97 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A fb4adb3abc6d
obsidian-vault-ops is a skill published in the GitHub repository ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm (1,861 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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inbox
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weekly-review
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audit
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podcast-digest
Digest an informational podcast/talk episode from a URL — existing transcript or captions, else local/cloud WhisperX — into a cruxes-first written summary.
quarterly-hygiene
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