obsidian-ref

obsidian-ref is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (300 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical reference for building Obsidian plugins and related files, including manifests, Markdown notes, properties, and canvases.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps verify manifest.json files, use the Obsidian API, work with Obsidian file formats, and make interface decisions.
Why use it?
It helps check whether plugin details, file handling, interface text, and mobile behaviour follow Obsidian's requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps verify manifest.json files, use the Obsidian API, work with Obsidian file formats, and make interface decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills/obsidian-ref
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 davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills --skill obsidian-ref
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for obsidian-ref

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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 300 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.00300
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00150
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00030

Measured 11d ago against content hash 12ea99882c69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-ref 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.

obsidian-ref/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Obsidian Reference Skill

This skill provides comprehensive technical references and standards for the Obsidian ecosystem.

Purpose

To provide a central source of truth for API usage, file formats, and design standards.

Scope

This skill covers:

  • manifest.json requirements and validation
  • Obsidian API details and documentation
  • Obsidian-specific file formats (Markdown, Properties, Canvas)
  • UI text conventions and UX patterns
  • Mobile and platform compatibility

Core Rules

  • API Authority: The obsidian.d.ts file in the reference materials is the authoritative source for API details.
  • Terminology Consistency: Follow the "properties" and "Markdown" naming conventions strictly.
  • Mobile First: Consider mobile compatibility for all UI and file-handling features.

Bundled Resources

  • references/manifest.md: Detailed rules for manifest.json.
  • references/obsidian-file-formats.md: Specifications for Markdown, Properties, and Canvas.
  • references/ux-copy.md: UI text conventions and UX best practices.
  • references/references.md: External links and primary source locations.
  • references/mobile.md: Considerations for mobile compatibility.
  • references/performance.md: Best practices for performance.
Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 37 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 12ea99882c69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-ref is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills (52 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 300 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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