What is workspace-mode?

A command for switching between saved Obsidian layouts, where each layout arranges notes and panes for a particular work context.

Use it to list available layouts, switch to one by name, or save the current pane arrangement as a new layout.

It removes the need to drag and reopen panes whenever you move between meetings, stand-ups, one-on-ones, and recaps.

How benoror/obsidianos_work configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to benoror/obsidianos_work. 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/benoror/obsidianos_work/main/.agents/skills/workspace-mode/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benoror/obsidianos_work

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 643 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00041	$0.00643
Opus 5	$0.00020	$0.00321
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00129
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 71be44d680dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

workspace-mode 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/workspace-mode/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workspace Mode

Usage

/workspace-mode — List available workspaces and the current one.
/workspace-mode <name> — Switch to a named workspace.
/workspace-mode save <name> — Save current pane layout as a new workspace (delegates to Obsidian's Workspace plugin command).

Why this skill exists

Different work modes want different layouts:

interview: Meetings.base Interviews view + the active candidate's @Name.md + a blank scratchpad pane.
scrum: Today's Meetings/Engineering/Scrum/YYYY-MM-DD.md + Tracker.md + Meetings.base Pending view.
1-on-1: OneOnOnes view + the current person's @Name.md + their last 1:1 note.
recap: Recaps/ folder + Meetings.base ThisWeek view + Tracker.md.

Switching by hand means dragging panes around. This skill flips between saved layouts in one command.

Workflow

Step 1: List or switch

No args → run obsidian workspace format=json and present the list with the current one starred.
<name> arg → run obsidian workspace load name=<name> (or use the Obsidian "Workspaces: Load workspace" command if load isn't a direct subcommand: obsidian command name="Workspaces: Load workspace layout").

Step 2: Save

save <name> → run obsidian command name="Workspaces: Save layout" then prompt for the name in Obsidian's modal. (Or use obsidian eval to call the plugin API directly if needed.)

Suggested workspace presets

These don't exist out of the box — the user creates them once in Obsidian via Workspaces plugin, then this skill flips between them:

Workspace	Files / Views Open
`interview`	`Meetings.base` (Interviews view), latest interview note, blank scratchpad
`scrum`	Today's Scrum daily, `Tracker.md`, `Meetings.base` (Pending view)
`1-on-1`	`Meetings.base` (OneOnOnes view), `People.base` (Active view)
`recap`	`Recaps/Recap YYYY-MM-DD.md`, `Meetings.base` (ThisWeek view), `Tracker.md`
`default`	The main layout (current)

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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.

8d ago First seen · 53 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 71be44d680dc

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workspace-mode is a skill published in the GitHub repository benoror/obsidianos_work (166 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 643 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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