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.
npx skills add Howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit --skill article-to-markdowngit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Howie126313/obsidian-vault-kitWrote 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/howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit/article-to-markdown)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit/article-to-markdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit/article-to-markdown/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/howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit/article-to-markdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit/article-to-markdown.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00086 | $0.00835 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00417 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00167 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
article-to-markdown 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Article to Markdown
Convert external article URLs into structured Markdown notes and save them to the Obsidian vault.
Workflow
Step 1: Fetch and Detect Environment
1a. Detect vault root — follow ../../_shared/common-steps.md "Vault Detection" section.
1b. Fetch article content:
Use mcp__firecrawl__firecrawl_scrape to scrape the URL. This covers most pages including JS-rendered content.
If firecrawl fails, ask the user to paste the article content directly. Do not attempt other fallback tools.
Special cases:
- Tweet threads: use
mcp__firecrawl__firecrawl_scrape, reconstruct thread order - Paywalled content: ask the user to paste content directly
Step 2: Restructure and Link
2a. Understand and restructure — do NOT simply copy the raw text:
- Identify the article's core thesis, key arguments, and supporting details
- Determine author, publication date, and source platform
- Restructure the content into logical sections with clear headings
- Generate 3-8 relevant tags and a 1-3 sentence summary
2b. Search for bidirectional links — follow the Bidirectional Link Search in ../../_shared/common-steps.md.
2c. Format as Obsidian Markdown — follow the template in references/article-template.md exactly:
- YAML frontmatter with title, date, tags, summary, source
- Blockquote metadata line with original link, author, date
- Sections: Background → content → Key Conclusions → Further Thoughts
- Include
[[wikilink]]connections from Step 2b - Code blocks with language identifiers
2d. (Optional) Mermaid architecture diagram — if the article has a clear multi-layered architecture or flow worth visualizing, embed a Mermaid diagram after the blockquote metadata and before ## Background. Skip for simple or short articles. Use:
graph TD/graph LRfor flowssubgraphfor logical grouping- Concise node labels (keywords, not sentences)
- 3-5 layers, 2-5 nodes per layer
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.
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 · 75 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A 34f24b3a2c08
article-to-markdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository Howie126313/obsidian-vault-kit (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 835 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.
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