kepano/obsidian-skills

Project overview

By adhering to the open Agent Skills specification, obsidian-skills provides a standardized and reusable approach to bridging AI agents with the Obsidian ecosystem, covering specific formats like .base and .canvas.

Project type

AI Coding

Deployment

Refer to project documentation

License

MIT

Best for

• Developers building automations who need an agent to interact with Obsidian vaults, open formats, or the Obsidian CLI.

Key capabilities

• Creates and edits Obsidian Flavored Markdown (.md) with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax.
• Creates and edits Obsidian Bases (.base) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries.
• Creates and edits JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections.
• Interacts with Obsidian vaults via the Obsidian CLI, including plugin and theme development.
• Extracts clean markdown from web pages using Defuddle, removing clutter to save tokens.

Limitations and risks

• Coding is optional for using this project.
• Factors including GPU requirements, data boundaries, cost dependencies, and telemetry are not documented.

Getting started

• Setup difficulty is rated as easy; users can install the skills by running a single command or copying files into an agent's skills directory. The documented first success path is running /plugin install obsidian@obsidian-skills in a compatible marketplace.

Evidence and sources

Open original GitHub project