people-research

people-research is a skill for Claude Code from jlaska/obsidian-claude-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (3,291 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research workflow for creating or updating an Obsidian note about one person. Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores linked notes, and the workflow gathers information from LinkedIn, GitHub, web searches, and Red Hat’s employee directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for preparing for meetings, documenting new contacts, enriching existing People notes, and adding career, technical, and relationship context.
Why use it?
It turns scattered information about a contact into a structured profile, while using a different note format for external contacts and Red Hat employees.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the obsidian-productivity plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for preparing for meetings, documenting new contacts, enriching existing People notes, and adding career, technical, and relationship context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jlaska/obsidian-claude-plugins/people-research
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 jlaska/obsidian-claude-plugins --skill people-research
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jlaska/obsidian-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-productivity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,291 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 $0.00042 $0.03291
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.01646
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00329

Measured 7d ago against content hash 46386c3dc697, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

people-research 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 7d 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/people-research/SKILL.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

People Research

Researches a person from LinkedIn, GitHub, the web, and Red Hat LDAP, then creates or updates an Obsidian People note with a structured dossier: career arc, technical focus, connection context, and links.

When to Use

Invoke /people-research [name or context] when:

  • Preparing for a meeting with someone you don't know well
  • Creating a People note for a new contact
  • Enriching an existing sparse People note with research
  • A calendar attendee doesn't have a People note yet

Works for external contacts (dossier format) and Red Hat employees (vault template format with LDAP enrichment). Complements /people-enrichment, which does batch LDAP updates for Red Hat contacts — this skill does deep single-person research across multiple sources.

Input can be:

  • A full name: /people-research Spencer Smith
  • A name + company: /people-research Spencer Smith at SideroLabs
  • A meeting reference: /people-research the Spencer from my 11am meeting today
  • A LinkedIn username or email

Workflow

Step 1 — Discover Vault Root

cat ~/Library/Application\ Support/obsidian/obsidian.json

Parse the JSON to find the vault with "open": true. Extract vault_root.

Step 2 — Resolve Person Identity

If the input is a meeting reference (e.g., "Spencer from my 2pm" or "the person on my calendar today"):

  1. Search <vault_root>/MEETINGS/ for the meeting file matching the description
  2. Read the file's attendees frontmatter field to identify the target person

If the input is a name (with or without company hint):

  1. Check if a People file already exists: <vault_root>/PEOPLE/<First Last>.md
  2. If it exists, read frontmatter — extract any known email, LinkedIn username, or company. These seed the research.

Step 3 — Search and Disambiguate

Run searches in parallel:

  • mcp__linkedin__search_people with the person's name (and company if known)
  • WebSearch with query: "<Full Name>" <company if known> site:linkedin.com

If one strong match (name + company align, or only one plausible result): State who was found — "Found Spencer Smith, Senior Director at Sidero Labs (Greenville, SC) — proceeding." — and continue without asking. The user can interrupt if wrong.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 lines

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. 7d ago Changed · +6 lines 46386c3dc697
  2. 10d ago First seen · 362 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 5047f236cfdf

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people-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository jlaska/obsidian-claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 3,291 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 2026-08-31.

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