Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harnessnpx agentmods add skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cliWrote 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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cli)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cli/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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cli"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/obsidian-cli.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00078 | $0.01141 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.00456 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00228 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00114 |
Grade A, and why
obsidian-cli 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 1mo 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 — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Obsidian CLI Integration
Trigger
- Keywords: obsidian, vault, daily note, capture to vault, search vault, obsidian task
When NOT to Use
- Obsidian is not installed or CLI is not enabled
- User wants to edit markdown files directly (just use Read/Write)
- User wants to browse Obsidian docs (use agent-browser)
- User wants general task management without Obsidian
Prerequisites
- Obsidian v1.12+ with CLI enabled (Settings > General > Command line interface)
- Obsidian desktop app must be running (CLI uses IPC)
Workflow
/obsidian-cli [intent] [args]
│
▼
obsidian-preflight.sh --check
│
├─ FAIL → Report issue + remediation
│
└─ OK → Resolve vault
│
▼
obsidian-exec.sh <intent> [args]
│
├─ context → search vault, return results
├─ capture → write note/append to file
├─ daily → append to daily note
└─ task → add/query tasks
Scripts
| Script | Purpose | Invocation |
|---|---|---|
obsidian-preflight.sh |
Doctor + vault resolve + config | bash scripts/run-skill.sh obsidian-cli obsidian-preflight.sh [--check|--vault <id>|--print-env] |
obsidian-exec.sh |
Safe intent execution with timeout | bash scripts/run-skill.sh obsidian-cli obsidian-exec.sh <intent> [args] |
Preflight
# Check CLI + app + IPC readiness
bash scripts/run-skill.sh obsidian-cli obsidian-preflight.sh --check
# Set default vault
bash scripts/run-skill.sh obsidian-cli obsidian-preflight.sh --vault "My Vault"
# Print resolved env (for debugging)
bash scripts/run-skill.sh obsidian-cli obsidian-preflight.sh --print-env
Output lines:
STATUS=ok|error
VAULT=<resolved-vault-name>
OBSIDIAN_VERSION=<version>
ERROR=<message if STATUS=error>
Exec Intents
| Intent | Args | CLI Commands Used |
|---|---|---|
context |
--query <q> [--limit N] |
obsidian search query= limit= |
capture |
--file <path> --text <content> |
obsidian read path=, obsidian create path= content=, obsidian append path= content= |
daily |
--text <content> |
obsidian daily:append content= |
task |
--add <text> or --list |
obsidian daily:append content=, obsidian tasks daily |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 135 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A a92cf29a46ff
obsidian-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (194 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,141 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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