agentmods.dev

obsidian-cli

obsidian-cli is a skill for Claude Code from jykim/claude-obsidian-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (6,552 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for controlling a running Obsidian application. Obsidian is a note-taking app whose linked notes are stored in a vault, or note collection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read and search notes, create daily notes, manage tasks and properties, and work with other vault content from the terminal.
Why use it?
It lets scripts and terminal commands work with notes through Obsidian instead of manually opening and editing each file. It can also search and manage structured note information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

not rated 50repo 18d ago A scan SkillSpector: pass 51 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to read and search notes, create daily notes, manage tasks and properties, and work with other vault content from the terminal.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli
View source ↗ jykim/claude-obsidian-skills
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 jykim/claude-obsidian-skills --skill obsidian-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for obsidian-cli

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for obsidian-cli

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jykim/claude-obsidian-skills/obsidian-cli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,552 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00051 $0.06552
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.03276
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.01310
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00655

Measured 11d ago against content hash aaae640aaf15, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-cli 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 11d 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.

obsidian-cli/SKILL.md · 1,474 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,474 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian CLI Skill

The official Obsidian command-line interface allows you to interact with your vault from the terminal — reading notes, searching, managing properties, handling tasks, and more.

Prerequisites

Verify the CLI is installed and running:

obsidian --version
obsidian help

Requirements:

  • Obsidian v1.12+ (released late 2024)
  • Catalyst license or higher (Obsidian Sync, Publish, or community support)
  • Obsidian must be running — the CLI communicates via IPC with a live instance
  • macOS, Windows, or Linux support

If not installed, download the latest Obsidian installer from https://obsidian.md/download

Key Concepts

IPC-Based Communication

The obsidian-cli works by connecting to a running Obsidian instance via inter-process communication (IPC). It does not manipulate files directly; all commands are executed through Obsidian's API, ensuring proper handling of plugins, sync, and vault structure.

File vs Path Parameters

Two ways to target files:

  • file=<name> — Resolves by name like wikilinks. Searches across folders to find the file. More flexible but slower.

    • Example: obsidian read file="My Note" (finds the file regardless of folder)
    • Best for: Quick access when you know the filename

  • path=<path> — Exact path from vault root. No searching, just direct access.

    • Example: obsidian read path="Journal/2026-02-28.md" (exact path required)
    • Best for: Performance-sensitive operations, when you know the exact location

Vault Parameter

By default, commands run against the currently active vault. Override with:

obsidian read file="Note" vault="My Vault"

Quoting & Escaping

  • Spaces in values — Always quote: name="My Note" not name=My Note
  • Newlines — Use \n: content="Line 1\nLine 2"
  • Tabs — Use \t: content="Column1\tColumn2"

Flags vs Parameters

  • Flags — Boolean options, no value needed: --verbose, --overwrite, --inline
  • Parameters — Key=value pairs: file="Name", query="term", limit=10

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,474 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. 11d ago First seen · 1,474 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A aaae640aaf15

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository jykim/claude-obsidian-skills (50 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 6,552 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

Memory and contextProductivity
Related

Other skills, from other repositories

Cortex

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search…

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 196 tokens

Migrate

Intakes external content, classifies chunks against LifeOS taxonomy, commits with provenance. Sources: .md/.txt, stdin, LifeOS dirs, CLAUDE.md/Cursor/OpenAI Custom Instructions, Obsidian/Notion/Apple Notes exports. MigrateScan classifies → routing table. MigrateApprove with…

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 158 tokens

daily-briefing

Proactive daily briefing that fires on a recurring schedule, pulls recent memory and workspace context, composes a structured summary (action items, progress, radar, next steps), and delivers it to all active channels. Enable with a time like "set up my daily briefing at 9am". Disable, reschedule, or check status at…

vellum-ai/vellum-assistant · 75 tokens

company-brain

Your team's shared, AI-ready knowledge base — people, companies, meetings, SOPs, and decisions structured so Claude can answer questions on your team's behalf. Team-scope sibling to second-brain (which is personal-scope). Seven modes — capture (drop something into the right structured dir), compile (process into wiki…

coreyhaines31/makerskills · 322 tokens

calendar

Manage calendar events via CalDAV (Google/iCloud/Nextcloud) or local ICS files. View, create, and query events.

fuyuxiang/echo-agent · 29 tokens

email-assistant

Read, search, draft, and send emails via Himalaya CLI or Python IMAP/SMTP. Requires email account configuration.

fuyuxiang/echo-agent · 29 tokens