zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/SKILL.md

zotero-obsidian-codex-setup is a skill for Codex from guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow. It costs 119 tokens per session (867 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Windows setup guide for turning a cloned Zotero–Obsidian research workflow into a working Obsidian vault. Zotero manages references, while Obsidian stores and links research notes; Better BibTeX connects their citation data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check or initialize the repository root as an Obsidian vault, configure Zotero Integration, and prepare the Research vault workspace.
Why use it?
It checks the required applications, plugins, folders, and settings before applying the repository’s standard configuration, reducing setup mistakes.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

This is guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow/main/.agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 867 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00119 $0.00867
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00087

Measured 11d ago against content hash dad7e7c1776d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zotero-obsidian-codex-setup 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/apply_windows_setup.py, scripts/check_windows_setup.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.

.agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zotero Obsidian Codex Setup

Initialize this cloned repository on Windows so the repo root works as the Obsidian vault root and Research vault/ works as the daily Codex literature workspace.

Prefer the bundled setup script over hand-editing data.json.

The setup flow has two scripts:

  • scripts/check_windows_setup.py: non-mutating readiness check
  • scripts/apply_windows_setup.py: apply the repo-standard vault configuration

Workflow

  1. Confirm you are at the repository root.
    • Expect .obsidian/ and Research vault/ to exist side by side.
    • Keep the internal directory name Research vault/ unchanged.
  2. Verify prerequisites with non-mutating checks first.
    • Confirm Obsidian
    • Confirm Zotero
    • Confirm Better BibTeX for Zotero
    • Confirm Obsidian plugins Dataview and Zotero Integration
  3. Run the readiness check first:
python .agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/scripts/check_windows_setup.py
  1. If the user wants the template initialized, run:
python .agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/scripts/apply_windows_setup.py
  1. If the user wants a different BibTeX filename, pass it explicitly:
python .agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/scripts/apply_windows_setup.py --bib-name my-library.bib
  1. If the user only wants to preview changes, use:
python .agents/skills/zotero-obsidian-codex-setup/scripts/apply_windows_setup.py --dry-run
  1. After setup completes:
    • Tell the user to reopen or reload Obsidian if needed.
    • Switch the working directory to Research vault/.
    • For daily literature work, rely on the nested AGENTS.md and $literature-processor.

Expected Check Output

The readiness check should clearly report:

  • whether the repo shape is correct
  • whether Obsidian and Zotero are discoverable on Windows
  • whether Better BibTeX appears to be installed in Zotero
  • whether the vault already lists Dataview and Zotero Integration
  • whether the repo-standard Zotero Integration data.json already exists
  • the exact next action when something is missing

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 89 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A dad7e7c1776d

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zotero-obsidian-codex-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository guyumengyue/zotero-obsidian-codex-workflow (12 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 867 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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