obsidian-project-kb-core

obsidian-project-kb-core is a skill for Claude Code from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar. It costs 64 tokens per session (528 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-scoped knowledge-base workflow for Obsidian research vaults, with a standard structure for sources, experiments, results, writing, daily notes, and archived material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up a project vault, route notes, maintain plans and indexes, update registries, and manage research-note lifecycles.
Why use it?
It gives research notes a consistent home and maintains project hubs, indexes, registries, and lint reports as the project changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-scholar plugin — 45 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up a project vault, route notes, maintain plans and indexes, update registries, and manage research-note lifecycles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar/obsidian-project-kb-core
About the project

Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, supporting literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. Computer science and AI researchers use it across the research workflow with several coding-agent platforms; the catalogue contains its skills, commands, agents, hooks, plugin, and instruction.

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · 5,431 stars · on GitHub

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 Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar --skill obsidian-project-kb-core
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-scholar, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 34 commands, 6 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 528 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 $0.00064 $0.00528
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00264
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00106
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 8d ago against content hash 236346e0126d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-project-kb-core 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (scripts/kb_canvas_check.py, scripts/kb_common.py, scripts/kb_index_check.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/obsidian-project-kb-core/SKILL.md · 79 lines

What it actually says

Obsidian Project KB Core

This is the main workflow authority for project-scoped Obsidian knowledge maintenance.

Default project root:

Research/{project-slug}/

Default structure:

00-Hub.md
01-Plan.md
02-Index.md
Sources/
Knowledge/
Experiments/
Results/
  Reports/
Writing/
Daily/
Maps/
Archive/
_system/

Core rules

  • Keep all durable project knowledge inside the current Research/{project-slug}/.
  • Keep repo-local .claude/project-memory/* only as the runtime binding layer.
  • _system/registry.md is the only visible project registry.
  • 02-Index.md is a human navigation note, not a registry mirror.
  • Maps/ is a derived-artifact area; do not generate non-essential canvases by default.
  • Results/Reports/ is the default subdirectory for round and batch experiment reports.

Responsibilities

  • detect and bind the current repo to a project root
  • bootstrap the project skeleton
  • route notes into Sources / Knowledge / Experiments / Results / Results/Reports / Writing / Daily / Maps / Archive
  • update 00-Hub.md, 01-Plan.md, 02-Index.md
  • update _system/registry.md, _system/schema.md, _system/lint-report.md
  • handle note lifecycle actions: create, update, rename, archive, purge, promote, and link repair
  • run deterministic health checks through helper scripts

Deterministic helpers

Use the scripts under scripts/ for:

  • scaffold
  • registry consistency
  • link checks
  • index checks
  • canvas checks
  • lint aggregation

Use agents for:

  • note routing
  • daily promotion decisions
  • source vs knowledge judgment
  • stable-result judgment
  • semantic Hub and Index updates
  • references/DIRECTORY-SCHEMA.md
  • references/HUB-PLAN-INDEX.md
  • references/REGISTRY.md
  • references/DAILY-PROMOTION.md
  • references/LIFECYCLE.md
  • references/LINT.md
  • references/BINDING-LAYER.md
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 · 79 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 236346e0126d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-project-kb-core is a skill published in the GitHub repository Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar (5,431 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 528 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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