Research: obsidian-cli
Cached research evidence for obsidian-cli (not authority).
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”Official agent skill from kepano/obsidian-skills (by Obsidian CEO). Teaches agents to interact with running Obsidian vaults via the official Obsidian CLI: read/create/search/manage notes, tasks, properties; also supports plugin/theme dev with reload, JS eval, screenshots, DOM inspect, console. Follows Agent Skills spec. MIT license. Requires Obsidian app to be open. See raw SKILL.md for command reference (e.g. obsidian create, search, daily:append, plugin:reload).
Harness Coverage
Section titled “Harness Coverage”Target agents: antigravity, claude-code, codex, crush, cursor, gemini-cli, github-copilot, grok, opencode (from curated install command).
Trust And Risks
Section titled “Trust And Risks”trust_tier=curated-trust-gated; status=install-now-after-trust-gate; provenance=verified-install-command + official repo by Obsidian founder; MIT license; 35k+ stars context; risks primarily around vault access permissions and requiring running Obsidian instance. Scoped to user own vaults.
Install Prerequisites
Section titled “Install Prerequisites”Install: npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills —skill obsidian-cli —skill obsidian-markdown -y -g -a [agents]. Obsidian must be open for CLI. status=install-now-after-trust-gate; selector=named
Upstream Maintainer
Section titled “Upstream Maintainer”kepano/obsidian-skills (official, MIT).
Comparable Alternatives
Section titled “Comparable Alternatives”Obsidian-flavored markdown skills from other sources; general file-system or note-taking skills.
> Evidence from public web sources, GitHub (kepano/obsidian-skills official Jun 2026), curated; research evidence, not authority or endorsement.