obsidian-markdown

obsidian-markdown is a skill for Claude Code from michaeljauk/brain-starter. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,391 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of obsidian-markdown, MIT.

A writing and editing guide for Obsidian notes, which are Markdown files with extra features for linking and organising knowledge. It covers wikilinks, embedded files, callouts, properties, tags, and related syntax.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create or update Obsidian notes, add internal links and embeds, organise note properties, and format highlighted sections with callouts.
Why use it?
It helps produce notes that Obsidian can display and link correctly, including connections between notes and embedded content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Create or update Obsidian notes, add internal links and embeds, organise note properties, and format highlighted sections with callouts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michaeljauk/brain-starter/obsidian-markdown
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 michaeljauk/brain-starter --skill obsidian-markdown
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaeljauk/brain-starter

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-markdown

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/michaeljauk/brain-starter/obsidian-markdown"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/michaeljauk/brain-starter/obsidian-markdown.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,391 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01391
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00696
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00139

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7ad72e1f0a90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-markdown 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to obsidian-markdown — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/obsidian-markdown/SKILL.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Flavored Markdown Skill

Create and edit valid Obsidian Flavored Markdown. Obsidian extends CommonMark and GFM with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, comments, and other syntax. This skill covers only Obsidian-specific extensions -- standard Markdown (headings, bold, italic, lists, quotes, code blocks, tables) is assumed knowledge.

Workflow: Creating an Obsidian Note

  1. Add frontmatter with properties (title, tags, aliases) at the top of the file. See PROPERTIES.md for all property types.
  2. Write content using standard Markdown for structure, plus Obsidian-specific syntax below.
  3. Link related notes using wikilinks ([[Note]]) for internal vault connections, or standard Markdown links for external URLs.
  4. Embed content from other notes, images, or PDFs using the ![[embed]] syntax. See EMBEDS.md for all embed types.
  5. Add callouts for highlighted information using > [!type] syntax. See CALLOUTS.md for all callout types.
  6. Verify the note renders correctly in Obsidian's reading view.

When choosing between wikilinks and Markdown links: use [[wikilinks]] for notes within the vault (Obsidian tracks renames automatically) and [text](url) for external URLs only.

[[Note Name]]                          Link to note
[[Note Name|Display Text]]             Custom display text
[[Note Name#Heading]]                  Link to heading
[[Note Name#^block-id]]                Link to block
[[#Heading in same note]]              Same-note heading link

Define a block ID by appending ^block-id to any paragraph:

This paragraph can be linked to. ^my-block-id

For lists and quotes, place the block ID on a separate line after the block:

> A quote block

^quote-id

Embeds

Prefix any wikilink with ! to embed its content inline:

![[Note Name]]                         Embed full note
![[Note Name#Heading]]                 Embed section
![[image.png]]                         Embed image
![[image.png|300]]                     Embed image with width
![[document.pdf#page=3]]               Embed PDF page

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 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. 8d ago First seen · 197 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 7ad72e1f0a90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-markdown is a skill published in the GitHub repository michaeljauk/brain-starter (5 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,391 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to obsidian-markdown, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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