vm-install

A one-command installer for the vault-memory plugin for Obsidian, a note-taking application. It downloads a release from GitHub, checks its SHA-256 file hash, installs it into an Obsidian vault, and enables the plugin.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install or set up vault-memory when the plugin is missing, including on a machine where only its command-line server is configured.
Why use it?
It avoids installing the plugin through Obsidian's community store while adding a download-integrity check.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 151 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,546 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00151 $0.01546
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.00773
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00155

Measured yesterday against content hash 42ba5c42f3c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vm-install 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (setup.sh, setup.test.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

| 2 | Download tarball | `curl --fail --location` from `RELEASE_URL_PLACEHOLDER` (or `VM_INSTALL_RELEASE_URL` override) into a temp dir. |
skills/vm-install/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/vm-install — Sideload the vault-memory Obsidian plugin

The single entry point for installing the vault-memory Obsidian plugin without going through the Obsidian community plugin store. Downloads the latest v2.0.0+ release tarball from GitHub Releases, verifies it, and lands it in the user's vault.

When to invoke

  • User runs /vm-install (primary trigger)
  • User says "install vault-memory plugin", "set up the plugin", "Plugin installieren", "VM plugin einrichten"
  • The vault-memory plugin is not visible under <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/vault-memory/
  • A fresh install on a machine where only the MCP server (CLI) is configured

Release prerequisites

IMPORTANT: This skill installs from a hard-coded GitHub Releases URL. Before v2.0.0 ships, the release artifacts referenced by this skill DO NOT exist — they will be published during Phase 8 release prep.

Required release assets (publisher checklist):

Asset Purpose
vault-memory-plugin-<version>.tar.gz Plugin tarball (contains manifest.json, main.js, styles.css, versions.json at archive root)
manifest.sha256 Single-line SHA-256 hex digest of the tarball

The release URL is set via the RELEASE_URL_PLACEHOLDER constant near the top of setup.sh. The constant is marked with a # TODO: replace placeholder before publishing comment. Until the v2.0.0 release is published, invoking this skill will fail at the download checkpoint — point the script at a local fixture tarball via the VM_INSTALL_RELEASE_URL environment variable for testing.

What this skill does

The skill walks through 7 idempotent checkpoints. Each silently passes when already met, or applies a fix once.

# Checkpoint Action on miss
1 Discover Obsidian vault Probe ~/Documents/*/.obsidian, ~/Notes/.obsidian, iCloud Obsidian paths; honor VAULT_PATH env var override. If multiple vaults found, list + ask.
2 Download tarball curl --fail --location from RELEASE_URL_PLACEHOLDER (or VM_INSTALL_RELEASE_URL override) into a temp dir.
3 Verify SHA-256 Compute shasum -a 256 of the tarball and compare against the manifest.sha256 shipped in the same release. Mismatch → abort before extraction.
4 Extract atomically Extract tarball into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/vault-memory.NEW/, mv any existing dir aside to vault-memory.OLD/, mv .NEWvault-memory, rm .OLD only on success.
5 Set plugin config flag Add or update [plugin]\nenabled = true in ~/.vault-memory/config.toml. Create the file if missing.
6 Prompt user Print explicit copy: "Open Obsidian → Settings → Community Plugins → Installed plugins → toggle 'vault-memory' on."
7 Done Print success summary, log run to ~/.vault-memory/skills/vm-install.log.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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. yesterday First seen · 116 lines · 151 tokens per session scan A 42ba5c42f3c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vm-install is a skill published in the GitHub repository owrede/vault-memory (0 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 151 tokens to every session and 1,546 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.

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