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obsidian

by kennyg

AI Summary

Obsidian Booster enables AI assistants to read, write, search, and manage Obsidian vault notes directly from Claude Code, streamlining note management, task tracking, and incident documentation workflows.

Install

Copy this and paste it into Claude Code, Cursor, or any AI assistant:

I want to install the "obsidian" skill in my project.

Please run this command in my terminal:
# Install skill into the correct directory
mkdir -p .claude/skills/obsidian-skill && curl --retry 3 --retry-delay 2 --retry-all-errors -o .claude/skills/obsidian-skill/SKILL.md "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kennyg/obsidian-skill/main/SKILL.md"

Then restart Claude Code (or reload the window in Cursor) so the skill is picked up.

Description

Read, write, search, and manage Obsidian vault notes. Use when: (1) Reading/writing markdown notes, (2) Searching vault content, (3) Managing daily/periodic notes, (4) Tracking tasks or oncall incidents. Supports filesystem access and Local REST API.

Configuration

`bash export OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH="/path/to/your/vault" export OBSIDIAN_API_KEY="your-api-key-here" # From: Obsidian Settings → Local REST API export OBSIDIAN_DAILY_FORMAT="Journal/Daily/%Y-%m-%d.md" # Optional export OBSIDIAN_TODO_FILE="Inbox/Tasks.md" # Optional `

Filesystem (obsidian.sh)

`bash ./scripts/obsidian.sh fs-read <path> # Read note ./scripts/obsidian.sh fs-write <path> <content> # Write note ./scripts/obsidian.sh fs-list [dir] # List .md files ./scripts/obsidian.sh fs-search <query> # Grep search ./scripts/obsidian.sh fs-daily-append <content> # Append to daily note `

Thought (Daily Notes)

`bash thought "Great idea for the app" thought "Meeting went well" meeting work `

Todo Tracking

`bash todo add "Review PR" work --due tomorrow --priority high todo done 1 # Complete by number todo done "PR" # Complete by search todo delete 2 # Remove task todo list # Show pending todo list work # Filter by tag ` See: references/todo.md

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Claude Code