Obsidian CLI

by breferrari

Obsidian CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by breferrari in obsidian-mind.

4.5K stars518 forkson breferrari/obsidian-mindAdded 2026/08/16+3% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/03

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Install Obsidian CLI

Copy Obsidian CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/breferrari/obsidian-mind/tree/main/.claude/skills/obsidian-cli ~/.claude/skills/obsidian-cli

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/breferrari/obsidian-mind.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md in breferrari/obsidian-mind
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/obsidian-cli
Collection: One of 8 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Obsidian CLI does

Obsidian CLI interacts with running Obsidian vaults from the command line to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. It also supports plugin and theme development with reload, eval, screenshot, and DOM inspection commands, and is used when the user needs to work with an Obsidian vault or debug plugins.

Obsidian CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Obsidian CLI comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, gemini-cli and knowledge-management.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Obsidian CLI

Use the obsidian CLI to interact with a running Obsidian instance. Requires Obsidian to be open.

[!IMPORTANT] macOS — open Obsidian once before using the CLI. On macOS the obsidian command launches the Electron app if no Obsidian instance is running, producing a visible window flash on the first call. Once Obsidian is open, subsequent CLI calls forward args to the running instance silently — no further flicker. For interactive workflows (slash commands), ensure Obsidian is open at the start of the session. For non-interactive contexts where you can't guarantee Obsidian is open (background hooks, automation, CI), prefer filesystem reads via Read / Grep / Glob.

Command reference

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Obsidian CLI

What else does breferrari publish alongside Obsidian CLI?
Obsidian CLI is one of 8 skills that DirSkills catalogs from breferrari/obsidian-mind, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Defuddle, Excalidraw Diagram Generator and JSON Canvas. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Obsidian CLI does, and is maintained by breferrari in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the breferrari/obsidian-mind page.
How does Obsidian CLI compare to other Automation skills?
Obsidian CLI ranks #307 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Obsidian CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.