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Obsidian Skills

Skill Documents & Content Usable

Agent skills for Obsidian vaults covering Obsidian Flavored Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas, Obsidian CLI, and web content extraction. Maintained by Steph Ango (CEO of Obsidian). 18.9K stars.

19,922 starsMIT (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup
Fair rating — This tool is functional but has notable gaps. Review the evaluation notes below before deploying.

For enterprises using Obsidian as a knowledge base, this enables AI agents to create, edit, and organize vault content with full fidelity to Obsidian's proprietary syntax.

Consultants, researchers, and knowledge workers who use Obsidian as their primary PKM tool and want AI agents to operate natively within their vault.

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https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills

By Steph Ango (kepano) — CEO, Obsidian

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → PluginsAdd plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.
Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.
Command
npx skills add git@github.com:kepano/obsidian-skills.git

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

PrerequisitesObsidian vault; optional: Obsidian CLI, Defuddle CLITime to functional5 minutesCostFree

Trust Signals Source Reviewed

Stars19,922Contributors12Last updated2026-04-02LicenseMIT (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone found

Data & Access

Data processingPrompts sent to Anthropic API. Enterprise/Team plans exclude training.

Community Pulse Growing

Discussed on Reddit

11 mentions across 1 sources

Reviewer notes

Source Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.

17.9K stars. Maintainer is Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian — highest possible domain authority. Pure SKILL.md files, zero runtime dependencies, no executables. Follows agentskills.io spec — portable to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode. Last commit March 2 2026. Breadth=2 reflects Obsidian-specific applicability.

Exemplary security posture: pure markdown SKILL.md files, zero runtime dependencies. Skill files injected into agent context only — no network calls, no filesystem writes. Maintainer is CEO of Obsidian — maximum trust. Hygiene=2: slightly slower recent cadence but stable by nature.

2026-04-02: LIMITATION: Only useful for Obsidian vault workflows — zero utility for organizations not using Obsidian as a knowledge management tool.

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Evaluation

Ease of Use
3/5
Versatility
2/5
Reliability
4/5
Security
5/5
Overall score3.30 / 5.00 UsableEvaluatedMar 2026
17.9K stars. Maintainer is Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian — highest possible domain authority. Pure SKILL.md files, zero runtime dependencies, no executables. Follows agentskills.io spec — portable to Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode. Last commit March 2 2026. Breadth=2 reflects Obsidian-specific applicability.

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