claudekit / tools / obsidian-skills
[ Skill · Data Engineering ]

Obsidian Skills

A collection of agent skills for reading and writing Obsidian-specific file formats — markdown, Canvas, Base — directly from Claude Code.

kepano/obsidian-skills ·updated
$ /plugin install obsidian@obsidian-skills copy

Built and maintained by Obsidian CEO Steph Ango (@kepano)

What it does

Obsidian uses file formats beyond standard markdown — wiki links ([[]]), callouts, properties, Canvas, Base. A plain markdown-aware Claude Code can’t produce or edit these correctly. Obsidian Skills teaches Claude Code the full format set, so it can create and modify vault content natively.

Included skills

SkillDescription
obsidian-markdownCreate and edit Obsidian markdown — wiki links, embeds, callouts, properties
obsidian-basesCreate Base files (database-shaped files) with views, filters, and formulas
json-canvasCreate and edit Canvas files (visual node-and-edge diagrams)
obsidian-cliDrive the vault via the CLI — plugin/theme development, search, automation
defuddleExtract clean markdown from web pages — saves tokens

Prerequisites

The obsidian-cli skill requires Obsidian CLI:

  1. Install the latest Obsidian
  2. Settings → General → enable Command line interface
  3. Follow the prompt to add it to your system PATH (macOS: /usr/local/bin/obsidian)

Once installed, the obsidian command searches vaults, opens notes, adds daily notes, and more from the terminal. See the Obsidian CLI docs for details.

Use cases

  1. “Turn these meeting notes into an Obsidian note” → generates a note with properties (date, attendees, tags) and wiki links.
  2. “Visualize the project structure as a Canvas” → outputs a JSON Canvas with nodes and edges.
  3. “Organize papers I’ve read into a Base” → creates a database file with filters and formulas.

Notes

  • Follows the Agent Skills specification — compatible with Codex CLI and OpenCode in addition to Claude Code.
  • obsidian-markdown, obsidian-bases, and json-canvas work without Obsidian CLI — only obsidian-cli needs it.
  • MIT licensed.
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See also

same category · curated
[01]
[Tool] Firecrawl · 🔥 The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web for AI. Three integrated capabilities — Search, Scrape, Interact — exposed through one API. Open source under AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable via docker-compose, the engine also powers the firecrawl.dev cloud SaaS run by the same team.
tool · claudekit.io / tools / firecrawl
[02]
[MCP] Firecrawl MCP · 🔥 Official Firecrawl MCP Server — Adds powerful web scraping and search to Cursor, Claude and any other LLM clients. Exposes 12+ tools spanning single-page scrape, batch processing, site crawl, search, structured extraction, autonomous research agent, and interactive page automation, returning clean LLM-ready markdown.
tool · claudekit.io / tools / firecrawl-mcp
[03]
[MCP] Perplexity MCP · The official MCP server implementation for the Perplexity API Platform. Provides AI assistants with real-time web search, reasoning, and research capabilities through Sonar models and the Search API.
tool · claudekit.io / tools / perplexity-mcp
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Frequently Asked Questions

frequently asked
§ 7.1
What is Obsidian Skills?
A collection of agent skills that lets Claude Code read and write Obsidian-specific file formats — wiki links, callouts, properties, Canvas, Base — natively. Built and maintained by Obsidian CEO Steph Ango (@kepano).
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Where does it run?
Claude Code. It follows the Agent Skills specification, so it also works with Codex CLI and OpenCode.
§ 7.3
How do I install it?
Add the marketplace, then install: `/plugin marketplace add kepano/obsidian-skills` followed by `/plugin install obsidian@obsidian-skills`. NPX Skills is also supported.
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Which skills are included?
obsidian-markdown (wiki links, callouts, properties), obsidian-bases (database-shaped Base files), json-canvas (visual diagrams), obsidian-cli (CLI control and automation), and defuddle (clean markdown from web pages).
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Do I need to install Obsidian CLI?
Only the obsidian-cli skill needs it. obsidian-markdown, obsidian-bases, and json-canvas work without Obsidian CLI.
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What's the license?
MIT licensed.