obsidian-note-maintenance

obsidian-note-maintenance is a skill for Codex from li1-user/obsidian-mcp-bridge. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for safely maintaining focused notes in Obsidian, an app for storing linked markdown notes. It decides whether to add, update, organize, or connect a small piece of knowledge while following the vault's current write rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record or update one focused item, connect it to nearby notes, or preview and apply a controlled note change through approved Obsidian tools.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate notes and prevents unsafe changes by checking allowed paths, protected areas, exact matches, and approval requirements before writing.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to record or update one focused item, connect it to nearby notes, or preview and apply a controlled note change through approved Obsidian tools.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/li1-user/obsidian-mcp-bridge/obsidian-note-maintenance
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 li1-user/obsidian-mcp-bridge --skill obsidian-note-maintenance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/li1-user/obsidian-mcp-bridge

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,767 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 $0.00102 $0.01767
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00883
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00177

Measured 10d ago against content hash 64487db8ae6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-note-maintenance 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.

skill-templates/obsidian-note-maintenance/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Note Maintenance

Safely decide whether and where focused knowledge belongs. Prefer durable integration over producing a new file for every request.

Hard boundaries

  • Write only through approved Obsidian MCP tools such as create_note, append_note, preview_patch, and apply_patch when available.
  • Never use shell, local filesystem access, another connector, or an unapproved tool to bypass MCP policy.
  • Obey the server's live writable roots, protected roots, hidden-path rules, traversal checks, symlink/junction protection, exact matching, SHA-256 checks, safe writes, and audit logging.
  • Never add unsupported delete, rename, move, batch overwrite, or arbitrary file-write behavior.
  • Never invent approval parameters or claim that a write occurred when tools are unavailable.
  • Keep work within the user's focused maintenance scope.

Do not assume a fixed Vault taxonomy or protected-directory name. Discover allowed paths from live tool behavior, user configuration, and nearby notes.

Routing

  • Make this primary for a focused Vault write, even when discovery is required first.
  • Route heterogeneous recent batches to daily-knowledge-ingest.
  • Let method-training-coach lead active training.
  • Let method-evidence-review finish explicit evidence or readiness judgments before any write handoff.
  • Route pure lookup to obsidian-knowledge-retrieval.
  • Honor read-only instructions literally.

Preserve task-local goal, exact scope, one-task mode override, confirmed attribution, Practice Thread, factual uncertainty, note-scope decision, and preview/hash state across handoffs. Evidence approval never confirms an unseen Patch.

Tool roles

  • Search before writing and read only materially relevant candidates.
  • Use list_notes only when search terms are unavailable or structure must be inspected.
  • Read the persistent write mode before changing structured content.
  • Change persistent mode only on explicit lasting intent.
  • Create only for genuinely new durable knowledge without a suitable existing home.
  • Append only to genuinely chronological or append-oriented notes.
  • Preview every ordinary structured edit.
  • Apply only with the exact current preview hash.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Files

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.

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. 10d ago First seen · 173 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 64487db8ae6f

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obsidian-note-maintenance is a skill published in the GitHub repository li1-user/obsidian-mcp-bridge (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,767 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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