ObsidianREST

ObsidianREST is a skill for Claude Code from N4M3Z/forge-obsidian. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, EUPL-1.2.

A reference guide for an Obsidian plugin that runs a local HTTPS service inside Obsidian, a note-taking app, so commands can query vault files and content through JSON.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to list files, search note content, check whether a file exists, or read and write vault files with requests such as curl.
Why use it?
It explains how to access Obsidian data from tools or scripts without manually opening and searching notes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the forge-obsidian plugin — 13 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need to list files, search note content, check whether a file exists, or read and write vault files with requests such as curl.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/n4m3z/forge-obsidian/obsidianrest
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 N4M3Z/forge-obsidian --skill obsidianrest
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/N4M3Z/forge-obsidian

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install forge-obsidian, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 hook.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,497 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00055 $0.01497
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00299
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00150

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4019396efab7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ObsidianREST scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Reference for the Obsidian Local REST API plugin. Provides an HTTPS server inside Obsidian for vault queries — list files, search content, check existence, read/write. Returns JSON to `curl`.
skills/ObsidianREST/SKILL.md · 152 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed EUPL-1.2

The repository is licensed EUPL-1.2, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 9d ago First seen · 152 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 4019396efab7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ObsidianREST is a skill published in the GitHub repository N4M3Z/forge-obsidian (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed EUPL-1.2. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.