A guide to working with Obsidian, a note-taking app that stores linked Markdown files in a vault. It covers wiki links, configuration files, daily notes, templates, and plugins.

Finding daily notes, creating linked notes, reading vault settings, and working with templates, attachments, or plugins.

It removes the need to remember Obsidian's folder structure and link syntax when editing a vault.

obsidian — Skill for Claude Code by technicalpickles

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 technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins --skill obsidian

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install second-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 7 commands.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/obsidian"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/obsidian/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/obsidian"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/obsidian.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 749 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00036	$0.00749
Opus 5.5	$0.00014	$0.00300
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00007	$0.00150
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00075

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ff36b15c198d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian 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.

plugins/second-brain/skills/obsidian/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Obsidian Skill

Tool-specific mechanics for working with Obsidian vaults.

Vault Detection

A directory is an Obsidian vault if it contains .obsidian/ folder.

Wiki Links

Syntax: [[Note Title]] or [[path/Note Title]]

Obsidian resolves by title match
Can include path for disambiguation
Aliases: [[Note Title|display text]]

.obsidian/ Configuration

Obsidian stores settings in .obsidian/ at vault root:

File	Purpose
`daily-notes.json`	Daily note folder and template
`templates.json`	Templates folder location
`zk-prefixer.json`	Zettelkasten/inbox settings
`app.json`	General settings (new file location, attachments)
`plugins/`	Installed plugin data

Parsing Config

// daily-notes.json
{
  "folder": "Fleeting",
  "template": "Templates/daily"
}

// templates.json
{"folder": "Templates"}

// zk-prefixer.json
{
  "folder": "📫 Inbox",
  "template": "Templates/frontmatter"
}

// app.json
{
  "newFileFolderPath": "📫 Inbox",
  "attachmentFolderPath": "🖇 Attachments"
}

Daily Notes

Finding today's note:

Read .obsidian/daily-notes.json for folder
Use format YYYY-MM-DD.md (Obsidian default)
Path: {folder}/{YYYY-MM-DD}.md

Template application:

Obsidian applies template on note creation
Template path from daily-notes.json

Glossary Integration

If Glossary.md exists at vault root:

Contains known transcription corrections
Maps common errors to correct terms
Used by process-daily command

Vault CLAUDE.md

Vaults should have a CLAUDE.md at root describing:

Folder structure
Routing rules
Naming conventions
References to methodology (PARA, Zettelkasten)
Disambiguation rules for semantically similar areas

See templates/vault-claude-md.md for template.

Disambiguation Rules

When a vault has areas with semantic overlap (e.g., "tool sharpening" vs "software engineering"), the vault CLAUDE.md can include ### Disambiguation: sections that guide routing decisions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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.

1mo ago First seen · 109 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A ff36b15c198d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

obsidian is a skill published in the GitHub repository technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 749 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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