Agent Skills for Obsidian
Obsidian skills help an AI agent work with a local-first notes vault. The vault is the unit of organization, so these skills cover the whole loop around it: capture, so a thought lands before it has to be filed; linking, so related notes can reach each other; graph, so clusters and orphans become visible; plugins, so the core app can be extended; publish, so a chosen subset can go to the web; and vault structure, so the pile stays navigable. Use the ranked list by matching your bottleneck first — if notes go missing, start with capture; if ideas stay isolated, start with linking. Read each entry for what it touches in the vault, then pick the one that fits how you already work.
7 to start with17 top options
Start with these.
Obsidian is a local-first notes tool: capture, link notes into a graph, extend with plugins, and optionally publish — the vault is the unit of organization.
These are the closest matches for this work. Start with the first one and open it to install.
- Rank 01View Agent SkillDirect
obsidian-markdown
NotableCreate and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. Use when working with .md files in Obsidian, or when the user mentions wikilinks, callouts, frontmatter, tags, embeds, or Obsidian notes.
85,858 · popularity - Rank 02View Agent SkillDirect
obsidian-cli
NotableInteract 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.
75,134 · popularity - Rank 03View Agent SkillDirect
Obsidian Automation
Automate Obsidian knowledge management, note linking, and personal knowledge base workflows
4,303 · popularity - Rank 04View Agent SkillDirect
llm-wiki
The foundational knowledge distillation pattern for building and maintaining an AI-powered Obsidian wiki. Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki architecture. Use this skill whenever the user wants to understand the wiki pattern, set up a new knowledge base, or needs guidance on the three-layer…
3,988 · popularity - Rank 05View Agent SkillDirect
obsidian
Work with Obsidian vaults using the official obsidian CLI: read/search/create/edit notes, tasks, links, properties, plugins.
3,759 · popularity - Rank 06View Agent SkillDirect
obsidian-bases
NotableCreate and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries. Use when working with .base files, creating database-like views of notes, or when the user mentions Bases, table views, card views, filters, or formulas in Obsidian.
73,956 · popularity - Rank 07View Agent SkillDirect
json-canvas
Create and edit JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections. Use when working with .canvas files, creating visual canvases, mind maps, flowcharts, or when the user mentions Canvas files in Obsidian.
71,646 · popularity
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- Rank 09View Agent SkillPossible
defuddle
Extracts clean Markdown from web pages using the Defuddle CLI, stripping navigation and ads. Useful for clipping web content into an Obsidian vault, but it is a general web-to-markdown tool, not Obsidian-specific.
71,519 · popularity - Rank 10View Agent SkillPossible
nature-experiment-log
Standardizes experiment logs into markdown with YAML frontmatter, optionally writing into an Obsidian vault with index, anomaly, and equipment-tracking templates. Directly uses Obsidian vault structure for research logging.
10,070 · popularity - Rank 11View Agent SkillPossible
knowledge-ops
Manages a multi-layer knowledge base: ingestion, sync, dedup, and retrieval across local files, MCP memory, vector stores, and Git repos. Adjacent to Obsidian-style knowledge management but not tied to Obsidian vaults.
7,778 · popularity - Rank 12View Agent SkillPossible
memory-management
Two-tier memory system using CLAUDE.md as a hot cache and a memory/ directory as a full knowledge base, decoding shorthand and internal terms. Adjacent personal-knowledge-base pattern, but not Obsidian.
7,264 · popularity - Rank 13View Agent SkillPossible
knowledge-agent
Builds and queries AI knowledge bases from claude-mem observations, compiling filtered corpora into a conversational session. Adjacent knowledge-base concept but unrelated to Obsidian vaults or markdown notes.
5,426 · popularity - Rank 14View Agent SkillPossible
okf-knowledge-base
Open Knowledge Format (OKF) v0.2 guidance. Use when creating, reading, reviewing, or maintaining an OKF bundle; responding to OpenKnowledge `okf` plugin warnings; or choosing types, provenance, links, indexes, or logs.
9,161 · popularity - Rank 15View Agent SkillPossible
firecrawl-knowledge-base
Build a knowledge base from web content with Firecrawl. Use for local reference docs, RAG-ready chunks, fine-tuning datasets, documentation mirrors, topic corpora, or LLM-ready markdown organized from web sources.
32,176 · popularity - Rank 16View Agent SkillPossible
notion-knowledge-capture
OfficialCapture conversations and decisions into structured Notion pages; use when turning chats/notes into wiki entries, how-tos, decisions, or FAQs with proper linking.
- Rank 17View Agent SkillPossible
gws-keep
Manages Google Keep notes via the gws CLI (create, list, get, delete, permissions). Adjacent note-taking tooling, but it targets Google Keep, not Obsidian vaults or markdown.
36,799 · popularity - Rank 18View Agent SkillPossible
copilot-spaces
Loads curated project context from GitHub Copilot Spaces as a shared knowledge base for grounded answers. Adjacent knowledge-base concept, but it is GitHub Spaces, not Obsidian.
4,429 · popularity
What this topic covers
Each sub-topic groups Agent Skills for a specific situation.
- Capture
- Get a thought into the vault before it has to be organized.
- Linking
- Connect notes so related ideas are reachable from each other.
- Graph
- See clusters and orphans in the vault as a picture.
- Plugins
- Extend the core app with community or core plugins.
- Publish
- Put a subset of the vault on the web.
- Vault structure
- How the pile of notes is partitioned so you can still find things.
Frequently asked questions
- How is this list ordered?
- It is ranked by observed search demand. Direct matches to the topic come first, and there is a cap on how many entries any single publisher can occupy.
- What does a skill in this topic actually operate on?
- The vault is the unit of organization, so these skills work on notes inside a vault rather than on some separate cloud workspace. Depending on the sub-topic, they touch capture, linking, graph views, plugins, publish, or vault structure.
- Do I need plugins installed before using these skills?
- Not necessarily. Plugins are one sub-topic here, covering how the core app gets extended with community or core plugins. Other sub-topics like capture, linking, and vault structure are about the notes themselves.
- Where should I start if my vault is already a mess?
- Start with vault structure or graph, since those deal with how notes are partitioned and where clusters and orphans show up. Capture and linking are better entry points when the problem is thoughts not making it in or notes not reaching each other.
How to install an Agent Skill
Start with the first skill on this page. Claude Code reads a SKILL.md once it is in the skills directory:
- Claude Code — copy the SKILL.md for obsidian-markdown into ~/.claude/skills/obsidian-markdown/ for yourself, or .claude/skills/obsidian-markdown/ to share it with a project.
- From the registry — run npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills@obsidian-markdown.
- Or download obsidian-markdown from its source and place that SKILL.md in the directory above.
How to choose Check the source and the skill’s own instructions before you install. Official and Notable describe where a skill comes from.