read-search-smart

read-search-smart is a skill for Claude Code from tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router. It costs 147 tokens per session (1,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A meaning-based note search tool that finds related passages using text embeddings, which represent the meaning of words numerically.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find notes about a concept, search across vaults, restrict results to folders, or request deterministic local search.
Why use it?
It helps when you know the idea you want but not the exact words used in the notes.

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 notes about a concept, search across vaults, restrict results to folders, or request deterministic local search.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router/read-search-smart
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-smart
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 147 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,165 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 $0.00147 $0.01165
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.00583
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00117

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3391c004a87d, 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-smart 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-smart/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

read-search-smart

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

Arguments

Required:

  • query — natural-language query (not a literal substring).

Optional:

  • vault — vault name. Omit for default. Pass * to fan-out across ALL vaults.
  • folders — array of folder prefixes to restrict results (e.g. ["Sessions", "Trades"]).
  • excludeFolders — array of folder prefixes to exclude (e.g. [".trash", "Templates"]).
  • limit — max results (default 10).
  • tier — which engine answers: auto (default), semantic, or local. See below.

Argument parsing from $ARGUMENTS

  • bare text in $ARGUMENTS → query, default vault, default limit
  • vault=X query="..." → split
  • --all or "across all vaults" → set vault: "*"
  • --limit 20 or limit=20 → set limit
  • --in Sessions,Trades or folders=Sessions,Trades → set folders
  • --local / "recherche déterministe" / "sans plugin" → set tier: "local"
  • --semantic-only → set tier: "semantic"

The two tiers (v0.63.0, borrowing C4)

tier engine needs
semantic Smart Connections embeddings (cosine) bridge + smart-connections plugins, indexed
local local BM25 index (deterministic, pure JS) build_search_index has been run once

auto (the default) tries semantic and, only when that tier cannot serve this vault (plugin absent / route missing), falls back entirely to the local BM25 index. The two are never blended — their score scales are incomparable — and the response says which one answered.

Never present a fallback result as a semantic one. If the response carries tier: "local-bm25" with a fallback object, say so in one short line, e.g. "Smart Connections isn't available on this vault — these come from the local BM25 index."

Pre-requisites

None for tier: "local" beyond a built index. For the semantic tier the vault needs BOTH the obsidian-mcp-router-bridge and smart-connections plugins enabled and indexed — but you no longer need to handle that as an error: auto degrades on its own and labels the result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 8d ago First seen · 86 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 3391c004a87d

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read-search-smart is a skill published in the GitHub repository tboome33/obsidian-mcp-router (1 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 1,165 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 2026-09-03.