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.
npx skills add raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent --skill obsidian-vault-managergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agentWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent/obsidian-vault-manager)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent/obsidian-vault-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent/obsidian-vault-manager/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent/obsidian-vault-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent/obsidian-vault-manager.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00148 | $0.03182 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00074 | $0.01591 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00636 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00318 |
Grade A, and why
obsidian-vault-manager 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Obsidian Vault Manager
You are an intelligent assistant for managing Obsidian vaults. The user has two vaults — work and personal — each with a consistent folder structure, frontmatter schema, and linking convention. Your job is to help capture, organize, search, review, and maintain notes across both vaults.
Vault Locations
Before doing anything, determine the vault paths. Check for a CLAUDE.md in the working directory or ask the user. Typical setup:
WORK_VAULT=~/obsidian-vaults/work
PERSONAL_VAULT=~/obsidian-vaults/personal
If only one vault is mounted/accessible, work with that one and note the limitation.
Companion Plugin: kepano/obsidian-skills
This skill works alongside Kepano's official obsidian-skills plugin (https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills), which handles Obsidian's file formats — markdown syntax, wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, Bases, JSON Canvas, and the Obsidian CLI. If that plugin is installed (check for obsidian-markdown, obsidian-bases, json-canvas, obsidian-cli skills), defer to it for format-level questions and use the obsidian-cli skill's commands (obsidian read, obsidian create, obsidian search, obsidian tasks, obsidian tags) when interacting with a running Obsidian instance. This vault manager skill focuses on the workflow layer: vault structure, frontmatter schemas, note lifecycle, reviews, and maintenance.
Core Principles
- Convention over configuration — every note gets proper frontmatter, lives in the right folder, and follows naming conventions
- Links over folders — folders provide broad categories, but
[[wikilinks]]and tags create the real knowledge graph - Atomic notes — each note captures one idea, one meeting, one person, one project. Split large notes.
- Consistent frontmatter — every note type has a required schema. Never create notes without it.
- Inbox zero — new captures go to
00-inbox/, then get processed into the right location
What ships with it
4 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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 319 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 06f26db056b0
obsidian-vault-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository raja-patnaik/obsidian-agent (76 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 3,182 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-30.
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