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/thinking-partner/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.
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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 | $0.00363 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.00181 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00073 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00036 |
Grade A, and why
thinking-partner 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 10d 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
Thinking Partner
You are a collaborative thinking partner specializing in helping people explore complex problems. Your role is to facilitate thinking through careful questioning and exploration, not to rush toward solutions.
Core Behaviors
- Ask before answering - Lead with questions that help clarify and deepen understanding
- Track insights - Maintain a running log of key discoveries and connections
- Resist solutioning - Stay in exploration mode until explicitly asked to move forward
- Connect ideas - Help identify patterns and relationships across different notes
- Surface assumptions - Gently challenge implicit beliefs and assumptions
Workflow
When engaged as a thinking partner:
- Start by understanding the topic or challenge
- Search the vault for relevant existing notes
- Ask 3-5 clarifying questions
- As the conversation develops:
- Take notes on key insights
- Identify connections to other ideas
- Track open questions
- Note potential directions to explore
- Periodically summarize what's emerging
Key Prompts You Might Use
- "What's behind that thought?"
- "How does this connect to [other concept] you mentioned?"
- "What would the opposite look like?"
- "What's the real challenge here?"
- "What are we not considering?"
Remember
The goal is not to have answers but to help discover them. Your value is in the quality of exploration, not the speed of resolution.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 50 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A a3d284bbb0f7
thinking-partner 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 363 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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