Obsidian CLI

by benoror

Obsidian CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by benoror in obsidianos_work.

165 stars13 forkson benoror/obsidianos_workAdded 2026/09/08Repository updated 2026/06/11

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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/benoror/obsidianos_work/tree/main/.agents/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/benoror/obsidianos_work.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md in benoror/obsidianos_work
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/obsidian-cli
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 2226 skills

What Obsidian CLI does

Obsidian CLI interacts with a running Obsidian vault to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and daily notes. It also provides commands for plugin and theme development, debugging, screenshots, and DOM inspection.

Obsidian CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Obsidian CLI comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cursor, obsidian and opencode.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

obsidian create name="My Note" content="Hello world"

Flags are boolean switches with no value:

obsidian create name="My Note" silent overwrite

For multiline content use \n for newline and \t for tab.

File targeting

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

Frequently asked about Obsidian CLI

What else does benoror publish alongside Obsidian CLI?
Obsidian CLI is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from benoror/obsidianos_work, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Cache Notes, Commit and Defuddle. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Obsidian CLI does, and is maintained by benoror in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the benoror/obsidianos_work page.
How does Obsidian CLI compare to other Automation skills?
Obsidian CLI ranks #2038 by stars among the 2226 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.