obsidian

obsidian is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lvndry/jazz. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,472 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for Obsidian, an app for storing linked notes in a knowledge base called a vault. It controls a running Obsidian installation from the terminal.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create, read, edit, move, and search notes; manage daily notes, tasks, tags, properties, links, templates, sync, publishing, and workspaces.
Why use it?
It removes repetitive manual work when managing notes and other vault content. Obsidian must be open for the commands to work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It helps create, read, edit, move, and search notes; manage daily notes, tasks, tags, properties, links, templates, sync, publishing, and workspaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lvndry/jazz/obsidian
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 lvndry/jazz --skill obsidian
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lvndry/jazz

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,472 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 16
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00071 $0.02472
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00989
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00494
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00247

Measured today against content hash 5158853fc9a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian 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 today.

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/obsidian/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian CLI

Use the official Obsidian CLI (help.obsidian.md/cli) to control Obsidian from the terminal. The CLI connects to a running Obsidian instance via IPC.

When to Use

  • User asks about Obsidian or vaults.
  • User wants to manage notes (open, create, read, append, move, delete).
  • User wants daily notes, search, tasks, tags, or properties.
  • User wants to automate templates, sync, publish, or workspaces.
  • User asks for rich documentation with LaTeX, callouts, or diagrams (create content with Obsidian-flavored markdown).

Prerequisites

  • Obsidian 1.12+ installed and running
  • CLI enabled: Settings → General → Command line interface
  • The obsidian binary in your PATH

Important: The CLI talks to the running app via IPC. Obsidian must be open for commands to work.

Platform Notes

  • macOS/Windows: Installer usually adds the CLI to PATH.
  • Linux: You may need a wrapper so Electron flags don’t break CLI args; ensure IPC socket is available (e.g. PrivateTmp=false for systemd).

Command Overview (from official docs)

Syntax: obsidian [vault=Name] <command> [params]. Use param=value; quote values with spaces. Use vault= as the first parameter to target a vault.

General

obsidian help                    # List commands or help for a command
obsidian version                 # Obsidian version
obsidian reload                  # Reload the app window
obsidian restart                 # Restart the app

Vault

obsidian vault                   # Current vault info (name, path, files, size)
obsidian vault info=name         # Vault name only
obsidian vault info=path         # Vault path only
obsidian vaults                  # List known vaults (desktop)
obsidian vault=MyVault <cmd>     # Run command in vault MyVault (must be first)

Files and Folders

obsidian read file=Recipe                # Read by name (wikilink resolution)
obsidian read path="Work/notes.md"       # Read by exact path
obsidian file file=Recipe               # File info (path, size, dates)
obsidian create name=Note               # Create empty note (prefer path + write_file for content)
obsidian create name=Note template=Travel   # Create from template
obsidian create path="Work/note.md"     # Create empty at path
obsidian create name=Note overwrite     # Overwrite if exists
obsidian open file=Recipe               # Open in Obsidian
obsidian open file=Recipe newtab        # Open in new tab
obsidian append file=Log content="Line" # Append to file
obsidian prepend file=Log content="# H"  # Prepend (after frontmatter)
obsidian move file=Old to="Archive/Old.md"  # Move/rename (include .md)
obsidian delete file=Old                # Delete to trash
obsidian delete file=Old permanent      # Delete permanently
obsidian files total                    # File count
obsidian files folder="Work" ext=md     # Filter by folder/extension
obsidian folders                        # List folders
obsidian folder path="Work" info=size   # Folder size

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. today Changed · -2 lines 5158853fc9a1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 234 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ba7ba503a252

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian is a skill published in the GitHub repository lvndry/jazz (54 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,472 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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