init

init is a skill for Claude Code from tuan3w/obsidian-vault-agent. It costs 34 tokens per session (325 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup skill that creates an Obsidian vault with an agent-ready Zettelkasten note system. Obsidian is a note-taking app, and a Zettelkasten links small notes to build a connected knowledge base.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize the vault structure, add templates and agent instructions, configure integrations, and create the starter files needed for research and linked notes.
Why use it?
It removes the manual work of creating folders, templates, configuration, hooks, and example notes for a structured vault.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the obsidian-vault-agent plugin — 13 skills, 16 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize the vault structure, add templates and agent instructions, configure integrations, and create the starter files needed for research and linked notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tuan3w/obsidian-vault-agent/init
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 tuan3w/obsidian-vault-agent --skill init
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tuan3w/obsidian-vault-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-vault-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 16 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 325 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 $0.00034 $0.00325
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00162
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00065
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00032

Measured 8d ago against content hash 7d1e15381ae6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

init 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/init-vault.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/init/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

/init — Scaffold an Agent-Ready Obsidian Vault

Run the init script to scaffold a complete vault in the current directory:

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/init-vault.sh"

If CLAUDE.md already exists and the user wants to overwrite:

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/init-vault.sh" --force

The script handles everything: directories, templates, CLAUDE.md, .mcp.json, hooks, .gitignore, example notes, and git init.

After the script completes, tell the user:

Vault initialized! Next steps:

1. Open this folder in Obsidian
2. Install recommended community plugins:
   - Dataview (recommended — powers Spaces dashboards)
   - Obsidian Linter (recommended — auto-formatting)

3. In Obsidian Settings → Core Plugins → Templates:
   - Set "Template folder location" to "templates"

4. Start using the vault:
   - /process  — Process a source note (try the example post!)
   - /recall   — Review session with spaced repetition
   - /synthesize — Cross-domain synthesis
   - /research — Research a new topic
   - /youtube  — Create notes from a YouTube video

$ARGUMENTS

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 · 45 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 7d1e15381ae6

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init is a skill published in the GitHub repository tuan3w/obsidian-vault-agent (37 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 325 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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