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Obsidian Skills

Name: Obsidian Skills
Author: kepano

Skills that teach agents the Obsidian CLI, Markdown, Bases and JSON Canvas.

kepano/obsidian-skills

Maintained by kepano

Vertical Agents

Agent skills from Obsidian's CEO, Steph Ango (kepano). They teach agents to use the Obsidian CLI and Obsidian's open formats, including Markdown, Bases and JSON Canvas. Install them as a Claude Code plugin or with npx skills for OpenCode, Codex and others.

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Pros & cons

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Pros

DocsTeaches agents Obsidian Flavored Markdown, Bases (`.base`), JSON Canvas and the Obsidian CLI, plus Defuddle and Knap.[1]
DocsFollows the Agent Skills spec, with documented installs for Claude Code, `npx skills`, Codex and OpenCode.[1]
MetadataSmall and focused, MIT-licensed, about 50k stars.[1]

Cons

DocsOnly six skills: it covers file formats and the CLI but not vault search or a semantic index.[1]
User reportsEarly manual install instructions did not get skills recognized from the vault's `.claude` folder.[1]
User reportsCanvas output has had correctness gaps, such as node sizes not fitting content and node IDs that could not contain dashes.[1][2]
MetadataNo push since 2026-09-15, 38 open issues, and support for some harnesses such as Hermes Agent is unanswered.[1][2]

Best for: Obsidian users who let an agent create or edit notes, Bases and Canvas files in their vault.
Watch out for: It writes into your vault directly, so keep the vault under version control or backed up.

Assessed Oct 29, 2026 · adversarially reviewedSuggest a correction

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