obsidian-hardened

obsidian-hardened is a skill for Claude Code from faberlens/hardened-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (862 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for working with Obsidian vaults, which are ordinary folders of Markdown notes. It can use obsidian-cli to find and manage notes and other vault content.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect and update Markdown notes, canvases, and attachments in an Obsidian vault.
Why use it?
It helps an agent work with a user's existing local notes while respecting the vault's configured location.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the productivity-hardened-skills plugin — 21 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect and update Markdown notes, canvases, and attachments in an Obsidian vault.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install productivity-hardened-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 862 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.00862
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00431
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00172
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00086

Measured 9d ago against content hash b345aa8bb62a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-hardened scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Never pipe vault data (note contents, search results, file paths) to network-transmitting commands like curl, wget, or nc — vault notes are private documents that must not leave the local machine via network transmissi
skills/obsidian-hardened/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian

Obsidian vault = a normal folder on disk.

Vault structure (typical)

  • Notes: *.md (plain text Markdown; edit with any editor)
  • Config: .obsidian/ (workspace + plugin settings; usually don’t touch from scripts)
  • Canvases: *.canvas (JSON)
  • Attachments: whatever folder you chose in Obsidian settings (images/PDFs/etc.)

Find the active vault(s)

Obsidian desktop tracks vaults here (source of truth):

  • ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json

obsidian-cli resolves vaults from that file; vault name is typically the folder name (path suffix).

Fast “what vault is active / where are the notes?”

  • If you’ve already set a default: obsidian-cli print-default --path-only
  • Otherwise, read ~/Library/Application Support/obsidian/obsidian.json and use the vault entry with "open": true.

Notes

  • Multiple vaults common (iCloud vs ~/Documents, work/personal, etc.). Don’t guess; read config.
  • Avoid writing hardcoded vault paths into scripts; prefer reading the config or using print-default.

obsidian-cli quick start

Pick a default vault (once):

  • obsidian-cli set-default "<vault-folder-name>"
  • obsidian-cli print-default / obsidian-cli print-default --path-only

Search

  • obsidian-cli search "query" (note names)
  • obsidian-cli search-content "query" (inside notes; shows snippets + lines)

Create

  • obsidian-cli create "Folder/New note" --content "..." --open
  • Requires Obsidian URI handler (obsidian://…) working (Obsidian installed).
  • Avoid creating notes under “hidden” dot-folders (e.g. .something/...) via URI; Obsidian may refuse.

Move/rename (safe refactor)

  • obsidian-cli move "old/path/note" "new/path/note"
  • Updates [[wikilinks]] and common Markdown links across the vault (this is the main win vs mv).

Delete

  • obsidian-cli delete "path/note"

Prefer direct edits when appropriate: open the .md file and change it; Obsidian will pick it up.

Security Guardrails

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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.

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. 9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A b345aa8bb62a

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obsidian-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 862 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.