skills/obsidian-cli/SKILL.md
Interact 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.
npx skillsauth add jaggerxtrm/jaggers-agent-tools obsidian-cliInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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Use the obsidian CLI to interact with a running Obsidian instance. Requires Obsidian to be open.
Run obsidian help to see all available commands. This is always up to date. Full docs: https://help.obsidian.md/cli
Parameters take a value with =. Quote values with spaces:
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.
Many commands accept file or path to target a file. Without either, the active file is used.
file=<name> — resolves like a wikilink (name only, no path or extension needed)path=<path> — exact path from vault root, e.g. folder/note.mdCommands target the most recently focused vault by default. Use vault=<name> as the first parameter to target a specific vault:
obsidian vault="My Vault" search query="test"
obsidian read file="My Note"
obsidian create name="New Note" content="# Hello" template="Template" silent
obsidian append file="My Note" content="New line"
obsidian search query="search term" limit=10
obsidian daily:read
obsidian daily:append content="- [ ] New task"
obsidian property:set name="status" value="done" file="My Note"
obsidian tasks daily todo
obsidian tags sort=count counts
obsidian backlinks file="My Note"
Use --copy on any command to copy output to clipboard. Use silent to prevent files from opening. Use total on list commands to get a count.
After making code changes to a plugin or theme, follow this workflow:
obsidian plugin:reload id=my-plugin
obsidian dev:errors
obsidian dev:screenshot path=screenshot.png
obsidian dev:dom selector=".workspace-leaf" text
obsidian dev:console level=error
Run JavaScript in the app context:
obsidian eval code="app.vault.getFiles().length"
Inspect CSS values:
obsidian dev:css selector=".workspace-leaf" prop=background-color
Toggle mobile emulation:
obsidian dev:mobile on
Run obsidian help to see additional developer commands including CDP and debugger controls.
development
Operational service-knowledge system for a project's services. One skill that creates, discovers, activates, updates, and scopes per-service expert skill packages (SKILL.md + diagnostic scripts + references), kept in sync with the code via a GitNexus-aware drift engine. Use when onboarding to a service, routing a task to the right expert, scaffolding a missing skill, or syncing a skill after the implementation drifted. Triggers: /service-skills, /creating-service-skills, /using-service-skills, /updating-service-skills, /scope, or any task that touches a registered service territory.
development
Bootstrap a complete security pipeline (Dependabot + OSV + Semgrep + gitleaks + pre-commit hooks + Codex review) on any GitHub repo. Designed for free user-private repos where GitHub Advanced Security is unavailable. Reusable across Python/TypeScript/Go/Rust stacks.
testing
Merges queued PRs from xt worktree sessions in the correct order (FIFO), maintaining linear history by rebasing remaining PRs after each merge. Use this skill whenever the user has multiple open PRs from xt worktrees, asks to "merge my PRs", "process the PR queue", "drain the queue", "merge worktree branches", or says "what PRs do I have open". Also activate after any xt-end completion when other PRs are already open, or when the user asks "can I merge yet" or "is CI green". Handles the full sequence: list → sort → CI check → merge oldest → rebase cascade → repeat until queue is empty.
testing
Autonomous session close flow for xt worktree sessions. Use this skill whenever the user says "done", "finished", "wrap up", "close session", "ship it", "I'm done", "ready to merge", or similar. Also activate when all beads issues in the session are closed, or when the user explicitly runs /xt-end. This skill is designed for headless/specialist use: it must make deterministic decisions, auto-remediate common anomalies, and avoid clarification questions unless execution is truly blocked.