obsidian-official-cli

obsidian-official-cli is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rsenna/rs-agent-plugin. It costs 85 tokens per session (2,143 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command-line interface for managing Obsidian vaults, which are folders of linked notes, from a terminal. It requires Obsidian 1.12 or newer, a Catalyst license, and Obsidian running on the computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps open, search, create, move, and manage notes, tasks, properties, links, plugins, themes, sync settings, and developer tools through commands.
Why use it?
It lets terminal-based workflows search and manage notes without performing those tasks manually in the Obsidian window.

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/rsenna/rs-agent-plugin/clawhub.obsidian-cli
Any agent
npx skills add rsenna/rs-agent-plugin --skill clawhub.obsidian-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rsenna/rs-agent-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,143 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 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 $0.00085 $0.02143
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.01071
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00429
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00214

Measured 4d ago against content hash d9c668739578, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

obsidian-official-cli scanned grade B 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 4d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo ln -s /path/to/obsidian /usr/local/bin/obsidian
skills/clawhub.obsidian-cli/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian CLI

Official command-line interface for Obsidian. Anything you can do in Obsidian can be done from the command line — including developer commands for debugging, screenshots, and plugin reloading.

Prerequisites

  • Obsidian 1.12+ and Catalyst license required
  • Settings → General → Command line interface → Enable
  • Follow prompt to register the obsidian command
  • Restart terminal or source ~/.zprofile (macOS)
  • Note: Obsidian must be running for CLI to work

Test setup: obsidian version

Core Patterns

Command Structure

# Single commands
obsidian <command> [parameters] [flags]

# TUI mode (interactive)
obsidian  # Enter TUI with autocomplete and history

# Vault targeting
obsidian vault=Notes <command>
obsidian vault="My Vault" <command>

Parameter Types

  • Parameters: name=value (quote values with spaces)
  • Flags: Boolean switches (just include to enable)
  • Multiline: Use for newlines, \t for tabs
  • Copy output: Add --copy to copy to clipboard

File Operations

Basic File Management

# Info and listing
obsidian file                          # Active file info
obsidian file file=Recipe              # Specific file info
obsidian files                         # List all files
obsidian files folder=Projects/        # Filter by folder
obsidian folders                       # List folders

# Open and read
obsidian open file=Recipe              # Open file
obsidian open path="Inbox/Note.md" newtab
obsidian read                          # Read active file
obsidian read file=Recipe --copy       # Read and copy to clipboard

# Create new notes
obsidian create name="New Note"
obsidian create name="Note" content="# Title Body"
obsidian create path="Inbox/Idea.md" template=Daily
obsidian create name="Note" silent overwrite

# Modify content
obsidian append file=Note content="New line"
obsidian append file=Note content="Same line" inline
obsidian prepend file=Note content="After frontmatter"

# Move and delete
obsidian move file=Note to=Archive/
obsidian move path="Inbox/Old.md" to="Projects/New.md"
obsidian delete file=Note              # To trash
obsidian delete file=Note permanent

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 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. 4d ago First seen · 299 lines · 85 tokens per session scan B d9c668739578

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian-official-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository rsenna/rs-agent-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 2,143 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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