obsidian-setup-consultant

obsidian-setup-consultant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SikJa/hermes-obsidian-setup-consultant. It costs 124 tokens per session (1,844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A consulting guide for setting up Obsidian, an app that stores linked notes as Markdown files, as a personal knowledge base or second brain. It covers folder structure, information capture, syncing, plugins, and making notes readable by AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or changing an Obsidian vault for notes, research, projects, documents, tasks, or agent-accessible memory.
Why use it?
It helps turn an empty or disorganized Obsidian vault into a practical system without adding structure or plugins before understanding the user's needs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning or changing an Obsidian vault for notes, research, projects, documents, tasks, or agent-accessible memory.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sikja/hermes-obsidian-setup-consultant/obsidian-setup-consultant
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add SikJa/hermes-obsidian-setup-consultant --skill obsidian-setup-consultant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SikJa/hermes-obsidian-setup-consultant

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 124 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,844 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00124 $0.01844
Opus 5 $0.00062 $0.00922
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00184

Measured 11d ago against content hash f171ff475d53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-setup-consultant 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 11d 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.

skill/obsidian-setup-consultant/SKILL.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Setup Consultant

Use this skill to guide someone from zero to a usable Obsidian vault that can work as a second brain, project memory, research base, or agent-readable knowledge system.

The goal is not to create the most complex Obsidian possible. The goal is to make a vault the user will actually use, with a clear capture flow, stable folders, and a structure that future AI agents can read without guessing.

Core principle

Obsidian is a folder of Markdown files. That makes it ideal for humans and agents:

  • Humans use Obsidian to browse, link, write, graph, clip and review.
  • Agents such as Hermes can use filesystem tools to search, read, create, patch and organize notes.
  • Cloud/sync is optional; it only decides where the folder lives and how devices share it.

Start with 10 questions

Before proposing structure or plugins, ask these questions and wait for answers:

  1. What do you want to use Obsidian for mainly: business, study, projects, writing, personal life, research, AI agents, or a mix?
  2. What information will you save most often: notes, PDFs, links, videos, transcripts, audios, ideas, tasks, clients, code, or documentation?
  3. Do you want a simple folder structure or a more complete personal operating system?
  4. Will you use it on one computer, multiple computers, or also on mobile?
  5. Which sync/cloud option do you prefer or already use: Obsidian Sync, iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Git, Syncthing, or local only?
  6. Do you want Hermes or another AI agent to read, search, create and edit notes in the vault?
  7. What 3–7 big areas of life/work should exist from day one?
  8. Do you want to preserve full sources separately from processed summaries?
  9. Which plugin categories matter: navigation, Web Clipper, Canvas, Excalidraw, graph, calendar, tasks, Dataview, templates, or minimalism?
  10. What is one real thing you will capture tomorrow, and how would you want to find it later?

If the user already provided some answers, only ask for the missing ones. Do not force all 10 again if the context is clear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 11d ago First seen · 228 lines · 124 tokens per session scan A f171ff475d53

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obsidian-setup-consultant is a skill published in the GitHub repository SikJa/hermes-obsidian-setup-consultant (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 124 tokens to every session and 1,844 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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