What is trove-obsidian-cli?

A workflow for using the Obsidian command-line interface to search, read, and change an Obsidian vault. Obsidian is a note-taking app, and its vault is the folder containing its notes.

Use it for explicit Obsidian app operations, including inspecting notes and developing an Obsidian plugin. It can fall back to filesystem tools for authorized file work when the vault path is known.

It prevents edits to the wrong vault or note by checking the available commands, resolving the target, and reading the existing content first. It also explains when the desktop command-line interface is unavailable.

trove-obsidian-cli — Skill for Claude Code by bravew/trove

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 bravew/trove --skill trove-obsidian-cli

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bravew/trove

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trove-doc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,036 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	$0.00052	$0.01036
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00414
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00207
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00104

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e95a5ce158ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

trove-obsidian-cli 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.

plugins/trove-doc/.agents/skills/trove-obsidian-cli/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian CLI

Use the installed CLI's help as the command contract. Obsidian desktop must support and enable the CLI; invoking it can start the app if it is closed. Do not assume that a generic notes directory is an Obsidian vault.

Establish capabilities and targets

Check executable availability, for example command -v obsidian on POSIX or Get-Command obsidian on PowerShell. If unavailable, use filesystem tools for authorized file work when the vault path is known. Explain the limit for app-only operations. Do not install or configure software silently.
Read obsidian help and obsidian help <command> for the operation. The examples below are patterns to verify, not a substitute for installed help.
Resolve the vault name or ID and the exact target from the request and available context. Use vault=<name-or-id> before the command. Use a vault-relative path=<path> for files. file=<name> can be ambiguous. If an unresolved choice could edit the wrong vault or note, ask for that target before the dependent write; continue independent read-only work.
Read the target before changing it. Do not rely on the active file or focused vault as an implicit write destination.

Command patterns

Parameters use key=value; boolean flags have no value. POSIX examples use single quotes so shell substitutions remain literal. Adapt quoting to the actual shell and pass an argument array through tools that support it.

obsidian help search
obsidian vault='Work' search query='onboarding' limit=10
obsidian vault='Work' read path='Projects/Launch.md'
obsidian vault='Work' backlinks path='Projects/Launch.md'

After the user requests the corresponding change and the target is resolved:

obsidian vault='Work' append path='Projects/Launch.md' content='Review scheduled.'
obsidian vault='Work' property:set path='Projects/Launch.md' name='status' value='done'

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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.

references/LICENSE.md 1.1 KB

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.

1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A e95a5ce158ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

trove-obsidian-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository bravew/trove (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 1,036 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-11.

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