laurigates/command-palette

Obsidian Command Palette

When to Use This Skill

| Use this skill when... | Use the alternative instead when... | |---|---| | Triggering a command the user would normally pick from the command palette (Ctrl/Cmd+P) | Running JavaScript via the developer API — use dev-tools | | Discovering what commands a plugin registers | Enabling/disabling a plugin entirely — use plugins-themes | | Looking up which hotkey is bound to a command | Setting up a workspace — use workspaces |

The command palette is Obsidian's universal action surface — every built-in operation and every command registered by a plugin appears here. The CLI exposes the same surface, which is the leverage point for automation: any plugin command becomes scriptable without writing JavaScript.

Prerequisites

• Obsidian desktop v1.12.4+ with CLI enabled
• Obsidian must be running

List Commands

# All available command IDs
obsidian commands

# Filter by ID prefix (e.g. only Templater commands)
obsidian commands filter=templater

# Filter to a built-in family
obsidian commands filter=editor
obsidian commands filter=workspace

Command IDs follow the pluginid:action convention — e.g. editor:toggle-bold, workspace:split-vertical, dataview:dataview-rebuild-current-view.

Execute a Command

# Run a built-in command
obsidian command id=editor:toggle-bold

# Run a plugin-registered command
obsidian command id=templater-obsidian:insert-templater
obsidian command id=dataview:dataview-rebuild-current-view

# Open the command palette itself
obsidian command id=command-palette:open

command always operates against the active editor / active file — there is no file= parameter. To run a command against a specific note, open the note first (obsidian open file=Foo), then run command.

Hotkeys

# All bound hotkeys
obsidian hotkeys

# Mark which entries are user-customised vs default
obsidian hotkeys verbose

# Count of bound hotkeys
obsidian hotkeys total

# Lookup the hotkey for one command
obsidian hotkey id=editor:toggle-bold
obsidian hotkey id=editor:toggle-bold verbose

Common Patterns

"Run a Templater template against the current note"

obsidian open file="Notes/Today"
obsidian command id=templater-obsidian:replace-in-file-templater

"Find every Dataview command"

obsidian commands filter=dataview

"Discover what hotkeys conflict with a new binding"

obsidian hotkeys format=json | jq '[.[] | select(.hotkey == "Ctrl+Shift+P")]'

(Requires the user's installed jq; the CLI itself does not pipe.)

Agentic Optimizations

| Context | Command | |---------|---------| | List all commands | obsidian commands | | Filter commands by prefix | obsidian commands filter=PREFIX | | Run a command | obsidian command id=PLUGIN:ACTION | | List hotkeys (structured) | obsidian hotkeys format=json | | Lookup one hotkey | obsidian hotkey id=PLUGIN:ACTION | | Show user-customised hotkeys | obsidian hotkeys verbose |

Related Skills

• plugins-themes — Enable the plugin before its commands become available
• workspaces — Set up an editor state, then run a command against it
• dev-tools — When a command doesn't exist for what you need