Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault

by ballred

Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by ballred in obsidian-claude-pkm.

1.8K stars124 forkson ballred/obsidian-claude-pkmAdded 2026/08/18+4% in starsRepository updated 2026/02/18

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Install Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault

Copy Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault 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/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm/tree/main/vault-template/.claude/skills/upgrade ~/.claude/skills/upgrade

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/ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: vault-template/.claude/skills/upgrade/SKILL.md in ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/upgrade
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault does

Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault updates your vault's system files to the latest version, preserving personal content. It creates a backup, shows diffs, and applies updates file-by-file with confirmation.

Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, goal-tracking, obsidian and pkm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Upgrade Skill

Updates your vault's system files to the latest version while preserving all your personal content.

Usage

/upgrade          # Interactive upgrade with backup and diff review
/upgrade check    # Preview what's changed without making modifications

What Gets Updated (System Files)

.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md — Skill definitions
.claude/agents/*.md — Agent configurations
.claude/hooks/*.sh — Automation scripts
.claude/rules/*.md — Convention rules
.claude/output-styles/*.md — Output style definitions
.claude/settings.json — Permissions and hook config
CLAUDE.md — Root context file (merged carefully)
Templates/*.md — Note templates

What Never Gets Touched (Your Content)

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

Commands Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/upgrade
/onboard

Frequently asked about Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault

What else does ballred publish alongside Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault?
Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt Vault, Check Links and Daily. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault does, and is maintained by ballred in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ballred/obsidian-claude-pkm page.
How does Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault compare to other DevOps skills?
Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault ranks #285 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Upgrade Obsidian Claude PKM Vault against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.