obsidian-kb

obsidian-kb is a skill for Claude Code from waelmas/codeplow. It costs 130 tokens per session (5,371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guidance skill for an Obsidian-based project knowledge system, where coding agents store persistent project notes across sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to suggest or coordinate knowledge-base setup, document audits, updates after refactoring, session onboarding and offboarding, and knowledge-graph work.
Why use it?
It helps the agent recognize when to initialize, review, update, or hand off project documentation as the code changes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the obsidian-kb plugin — 8 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to suggest or coordinate knowledge-base setup, document audits, updates after refactoring, session onboarding and offboarding, and knowledge-graph work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waelmas/codeplow/obsidian-kb
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 waelmas/codeplow --skill obsidian-kb
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/waelmas/codeplow

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install obsidian-kb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 commands.

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README.md
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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 5,371 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 $0.05371
Opus 5.5 $0.00052 $0.02148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00026 $0.01074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00537

Measured 2mo ago against content hash d906a6ac26ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-kb 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 2mo 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.

obsidian-kb/skills/obsidian-kb/SKILL.md · 436 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 436 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

obsidian-kb - Project Knowledge Base Lifecycle

This plugin gives AI coding agents persistent memory across sessions via Obsidian vaults. It provides seven skills (also available as slash commands in Claude Code and Cursor; /kb-offboard has a /kb-handoff alias):

Skill / Command When to trigger
kb-init / /kb-init Full initialization: scaffold + populate vault with codebase analysis + audit existing project markdown for stale claims. Use when user wants project memory set up properly from the start.
kb-scaffold / /kb-scaffold Empty scaffold only (no codebase analysis). Use when user explicitly wants to manage content manually. Most users should use /kb-init.
kb-audit / /kb-audit Re-runnable doc freshness audit. Scan project markdown against current code, flag stale claims with file:line evidence. Use for quarterly doc refreshes, before major rewrites, or when user says "are our docs still accurate?".
kb-update / /kb-update Refresh KB notes inside the vault to reflect recent code changes. Surgical evidence-backed edits, flags new concepts as candidates. Use after a significant refactor, before /kb-offboard, or when the KB has drifted from the code. Complements /kb-audit — vault scope vs. project scope.
kb-onboard / /kb-onboard Start of a session when a vault exists for this project.
kb-offboard / /kb-offboard (alias /kb-handoff) End of a session, user says "done", "wrapping up", "that's it".
kb-graph / /kb-graph User wants to visualize the knowledge base as a graph in Obsidian.

When to Nudge

Do suggest kb-onboard early in a session if you detect a vault exists for the current project. A simple "This project has a knowledge vault - want me to trigger kb-onboard (or run /kb-onboard) to see what happened last session?" is enough.

Do suggest kb-offboard when the user signals they're wrapping up. Don't wait for them to ask - they may not know the skill exists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 436 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 2mo ago First seen · 436 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A d906a6ac26ab

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obsidian-kb is a skill published in the GitHub repository waelmas/codeplow (8 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 5,371 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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