read-search

read-search is a skill for Claude Code from tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router. It costs 130 tokens per session (378 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plain-text search tool for finding an exact string inside one or more vaults.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find mentions, matching files, or passages containing a literal phrase, with nearby context.
Why use it?
It removes the need to open files one by one when you remember specific words but not where they appear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the obsidian-router plugin — 49 skills, 54 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to find mentions, matching files, or passages containing a literal phrase, with nearby context.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router/read-search
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.

Any agent
npx skills add tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router --skill read-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-router, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 49 skills, 54 commands, 2 agents, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 378 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 $0.00130 $0.00378
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00189
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00038

Measured 8d ago against content hash f59cc54203b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-search 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 8d 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.

skills/read-search/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Call the obsidian-router search MCP tool with arguments parsed from $ARGUMENTS.

Arguments

Required:

  • query — the substring to find.

Optional:

  • vault — vault name. Omit for default. Pass * to fan-out across ALL vaults in parallel.
  • contextLength — number of characters of surrounding context per match. Default 100.

Argument parsing from $ARGUMENTS

  • the entire $ARGUMENTS as query is fine for the most common case
  • vault=X query="some words" or vault=* query="words"
  • if user includes --all or "across all vaults", set vault to *

Output format

Render results as a markdown list, one per matching file:

<path> (vault name if cross-vault)
  - <text snippet with surrounding context>

If many matches (>20), summarize counts and show the first 20. Suggest read-search-smart (semantic) if the user seems to be looking by meaning rather than literal text.

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. 8d ago First seen · 43 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A f59cc54203b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 378 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 2026-09-03.

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