add-vault

add-vault is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from owrede/vault-memory. It costs 92 tokens per session (839 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup tool for connecting a new Obsidian vault—a folder of linked notes—to vault-memory, a local memory service.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a vault does not yet have vault-memory or when you want to add another vault. It prepares the vault so its memory tools can be used in Claude Code.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of registering the vault, adding its configuration, and creating its first search index.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/owrede/vault-memory/add-vault
Any agent
npx skills add owrede/vault-memory --skill add-vault
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owrede/vault-memory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 839 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00092 $0.00839
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00419
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00084

Measured 3d ago against content hash d0d03f74f3e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-vault 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 3d 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.

skills/add-vault/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Add Vault

One-shot onboarding for an additional Obsidian vault. After this skill runs, the user can open that vault in Claude Code and immediately have the vault-memory MCP tools available.

Trigger

  • User invokes /add-vault
  • User says "add this vault to memory", "register this vault", "neuer vault einrichten"
  • User opens Claude Code in a vault directory and the mcp__vault-memory__* tools are missing or returning empty

Prerequisites

vault-memory must already be installed system-wide. If not, run /install-vault-memory first.

Check via:

which vault-memory

If missing: stop and tell the user to run /install-vault-memory. Do not try to install anything else from this skill.

Behavior

Detect the vault path:

  • If the user passed an explicit path argument (/add-vault /path/to/vault), use that.
  • If they invoked the skill from inside a vault (working directory contains .obsidian/), default to the current directory.
  • Otherwise, ask the user with AskUserQuestion which vault they want to add.

Confirm with the user before mutating anything:

  • Show the detected path, the proposed name (slugified basename), and write_enabled (default false = read-only).
  • Confirm via AskUserQuestion — give them the chance to override the name or enable writes.

Run the CLI:

vault-memory add-vault "<path>" [--name <name>] [--write] [--no-index]

The CLI does all three steps atomically (config.toml append, .mcp.json write/merge, initial index). It prints a per-step transcript — relay that verbatim to the user.

Default to running the index unless the user says they want to skip it (--no-index flag). For large vaults (>1000 notes), warn the user that initial indexing can take several minutes; they may want to run it in a separate terminal.

After completion, tell the user to restart Claude Code in the new vault for the MCP tools to attach.

Edge Cases

  • Vault path doesn't exist: surface the CLI error verbatim, suggest checking the path.
  • Vault already registered under the same path: the CLI handles this idempotently (reports "already registered"), the skill just relays it.
  • Vault name collision with different path: CLI rejects with a clear error. Ask the user for an override name via AskUserQuestion.
  • Vault is read-only mounted (e.g. iCloud not synced): the .mcp.json write will fail with EACCES. Surface the error and stop.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 3d ago First seen · 77 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A d0d03f74f3e7

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add-vault is a skill published in the GitHub repository owrede/vault-memory (0 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 839 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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