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vault-query

vault-query is a skill for Claude Code from JeanDiable/obsidian-claude. It costs 22 tokens per session (323 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-answering workflow for an Obsidian vault, a folder of linked notes organized with the PARA method. It searches projects, responsibilities, resources, clippings, and wiki notes, then answers with links to the source notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps search the vault, read the most relevant notes, combine their information, cite note links, and point out when the available notes are insufficient or disagree.
Why use it?
It makes information spread across many notes easier to find and shows where the answer came from.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the obsidian-claude plugin — 19 skills shipped together

not rated 2repo 8mo ago A scan 22 tokens original MIT

Good fit It helps search the vault, read the most relevant notes, combine their information, cite note links, and point out when the available notes are insufficient or disagree.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jeandiable/obsidian-claude/vault-query
View source ↗ JeanDiable/obsidian-claude
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 JeanDiable/obsidian-claude --skill vault-query
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JeanDiable/obsidian-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-claude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

Wrote 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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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for vault-query

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 323 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 $0.00022 $0.00323
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00129
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00032

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 611e8ff5f79c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vault-query 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 2mo 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.

skills/vault-query/SKILL.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Ask

Quick vault Q&A — search, synthesize, cite.

Vault Path

/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloudmd~obsidian/Documents/My_note

Input

User provides a question as the skill argument: /ask <question>

Workflow

  1. Parse the question — identify key search terms and concepts

  2. Search the vault — search across all content folders:

    obsidian search query="<search terms>" limit=20

  3. Read relevant files — read the top 5-10 most relevant matches

  4. Synthesize answer — combine information from multiple sources into a clear, concise answer:

    • Cite sources using [[wikilinks]]
    • If sources disagree, note the disagreement
    • If information is insufficient, say so

  5. Output — respond directly to the user with the answer. No file creation unless the answer reveals a substantial insight worth saving (in which case, offer to save it).

Important Rules

  • Be fast and lightweight — this is not a research skill
  • Always cite sources with [[wikilinks]]
  • If the vault doesn't contain relevant info, say so honestly rather than hallucinating
  • Search scope: 20_Projects, 30_Areas, 40_Resources, 50_Clippings, 60_Wiki (not Inbox, Archive, or System)
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. 2mo ago First seen · 39 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 611e8ff5f79c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vault-query is a skill published in the GitHub repository JeanDiable/obsidian-claude (2 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 323 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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