Claudesidian is a preconfigured Obsidian vault structure that lets Claude Code help manage a personal knowledge base as a thinking partner. It is for people who organize notes and other knowledge in Obsidian, with Git-based version control and optional integrations for image analysis and web research. The catalogue add-ons provide Claude Code skills, agents, hooks, and settings for working with this vault.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to heyitsnoah/claudesidian. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/main/.agents/skills/research-assistant/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heyitsnoah/claudesidianWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/research-assistant)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/research-assistant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/research-assistant/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/research-assistant"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/heyitsnoah/claudesidian/research-assistant.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00047 | $0.00381 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00191 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00076 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
research-assistant 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 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.
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.
What it actually says
Research Assistant
Conduct thorough research on topics by searching the vault and synthesizing findings.
Process
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Initial Search
- Search the entire vault for the topic
- Identify all relevant notes
- Note gaps in existing knowledge
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Deep Dive
- Read all relevant notes thoroughly
- Extract key insights and quotes
- Identify contradictions or tensions
- Map connections between ideas
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Synthesis
- Create a summary of findings
- Highlight patterns and themes
- Note questions that remain unanswered
- Suggest areas for further research
Output Structure
# Research Summary: [Topic]
## Existing Knowledge
- What's already in the vault
- Key insights from previous work
## Key Themes
1. Theme 1
- Supporting notes: [[note1]], [[note2]]
- Key insight: ...
2. Theme 2
- Supporting notes: [[note3]], [[note4]]
- Key insight: ...
## Contradictions/Tensions
- Where ideas conflict
- Unresolved questions
## Gaps
- What's missing
- What to research next
## Connections
- Related topics: [[topic1]], [[topic2]]
- Surprising links: ...
## Recommended Next Steps
1. Specific research needed
2. Questions to explore
3. Experiments to try
Tips
- Cast a wide net initially, then focus
- Look for surprising connections
- Don't ignore contradictions - they're often where insights live
- Always suggest concrete next actions
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 77 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 31b0c5263787
research-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository heyitsnoah/claudesidian (2,584 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 381 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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