search

search is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thoreinstein/obsidian-rag. It costs 29 tokens per session (153 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of search, MIT.

A note-search tool for an Obsidian vault. It finds notes by matching words in their filenames or contents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search the vault for notes about a topic or filename, then choose matching notes to read.
Why use it?
It saves time when you know a keyword or part of a filename but do not remember where the note is stored. Results are limited to the first 20 matches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the obsidian-rag plugin — 13 skills, 2 agents shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thoreinstein/obsidian-rag/search
Any agent
npx skills add thoreinstein/obsidian-rag --skill search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thoreinstein/obsidian-rag

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install obsidian-rag, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 2 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for search

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 153 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00029 $0.00153
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00077
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00015

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3cabb2e9e4a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 4d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to search — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/search/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Search Vault

Search for notes by keyword or filename match.

Workflow

  1. Call obsidian_search_notes with the user's query
  2. Present matching files in a clear list
  3. Ask if the user would like to read any of the results

Arguments

The search query follows the skill invocation. Example: /search cooking recipes

Tips

  • This is a simple text match (keyword in filename or content)
  • For semantic/meaning-based search, suggest /research instead
  • Results are capped at 20 matches
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. 4d ago First seen · 27 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 3cabb2e9e4a5

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search is a skill published in the GitHub repository thoreinstein/obsidian-rag (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 153 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to search, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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