obsidian-theme-dev

obsidian-theme-dev is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (317 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A CSS and SCSS guide for designing Obsidian themes, where Obsidian is a Markdown note-taking app.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps write or update theme.css, use Obsidian style variables, organise selectors, build responsive layouts, and debug theme appearance.
Why use it?
It helps keep theme styles consistent with Obsidian's built-in settings and usable across light, dark, and mobile layouts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps write or update theme.css, use Obsidian style variables, organise selectors, build responsive layouts, and debug theme appearance.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 317 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 $0.00032 $0.00317
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 8d ago against content hash 4f93deb7fb19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-theme-dev 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.

obsidian-theme-dev/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Obsidian Theme Development Skill

This skill provides patterns and rules for developing Obsidian themes, focusing on CSS/SCSS development, styling conventions, and theme-specific coding practices.

Purpose

To ensure consistent theme development, proper CSS organization, and adherence to Obsidian's theming patterns and CSS variable usage.

Scope

This skill covers:

  • Writing or modifying CSS/SCSS for theme.css
  • Working with Obsidian's CSS variables and theming system
  • Implementing responsive design or dark/light mode support
  • Debugging CSS layout or styling issues
  • CSS/SCSS coding conventions for Obsidian themes

Core Rules

  • Use Obsidian CSS Variables: Always prefer Obsidian's built-in CSS variables over hardcoded values
  • Consistent Naming: Use a consistent naming convention (BEM, prefixed classes, or other - see conventions file)
  • Mobile-First: Consider mobile layouts and responsive design
  • Dark/Light Mode Support: Test themes in both light and dark modes
  • Performance: Minimize CSS complexity and avoid expensive selectors

Bundled Resources

  • references/theme-best-practices.md: Essential CSS patterns and Obsidian variable usage
  • references/theme-coding-conventions.md: CSS/SCSS style guidelines and naming conventions
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 34 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 4f93deb7fb19

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-theme-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository davidvkimball/obsidian-dev-skills (51 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 317 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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