Skill

obsidian-cli

by edrickleong

AI Summary

This booster enables AI assistants to interact with Obsidian vaults through CLI commands—reading, creating, and searching notes, managing tasks, and developing plugins. It's useful for users who want to automate Obsidian workflows or debug plugin development with Claude's code execution.

Install

# Add to your project root as SKILL.md
curl -o SKILL.md "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edrickleong/obsidian-calendar-bases/main/.agents/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md"

Description

Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. Also supports plugin and theme development with commands to reload plugins, run JavaScript, capture errors, take screenshots, and inspect the DOM. Use when the user asks to interact with their Obsidian vault, manage notes, search vault content, perform vault operations from the command line, or develop and debug Obsidian plugins and themes.

Obsidian CLI

Use the obsidian CLI to interact with a running Obsidian instance. Requires Obsidian to be open.

Command reference

Run obsidian help to see all available commands. This is always up to date. Full docs: https://help.obsidian.md/cli

Syntax

Parameters take a value with =. Quote values with spaces: `bash obsidian create name="My Note" content="Hello world" ` Flags are boolean switches with no value: `bash obsidian create name="My Note" silent overwrite ` For multiline content use \n for newline and \t for tab.

File targeting

Many commands accept file or path to target a file. Without either, the active file is used. • file=<name> — resolves like a wikilink (name only, no path or extension needed) • path=<path> — exact path from vault root, e.g. folder/note.md

Quality Score

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Good

81/100

Standard Compliance72
Documentation Quality68
Usefulness82
Maintenance Signal100
Community Signal95
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