Obsidian

Use when the user needs local vault note search, read, create, update, or label operations through the packaged launcher and local CLI runtime.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add yuelenghan/orbit --skill obsidian

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SKILL.md

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Obsidian Skill

Use this skill to operate a local Obsidian vault through the packaged launcher and local CLI runtime.

Within Orbit's shared provider framework, this skill is one implementation of the docs capability.

Runtime and execution

Always run the packaged launcher through ${OBSIDIAN_SKILL_DIR} so it works from the user's current working directory:

macOS/Linux: ${OBSIDIAN_SKILL_DIR}/bin/obsidian
Windows: ${OBSIDIAN_SKILL_DIR}\bin\obsidian.cmd

${OBSIDIAN_SKILL_DIR} is a documentation placeholder, not a guaranteed shell environment variable. Resolve BIN to a real launcher path once before the first CLI call. Do not call node app/dist/cli.js directly.

Scope and boundaries

Local vault operations only.
CLI-mediated operations only.
No remote REST dependencies.
Labels map to YAML frontmatter tags so scenarios can keep using the shared docs.content.label.add contract.

Capability Domain

Domain:

docs

Provides:

docs.config.get
docs.config.set
docs.content.search
docs.content.get
docs.content.create
docs.content.update
docs.content.label.add
provider-specific workflow helpers

Config check:

obsidian config get

Config check

Run obsidian config get when configuration state is unknown or before the first provider-scoped task in a new session.

Supporting files

Read references/commands.md for the packaged command surface.
Read references/usage.md for execution policy and local-vault behavior.

What ships with it: 9 files

3.2 KB alongside SKILL.md, 2 of them executable

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most note taking skills give in 341 tokens

Counted across 632 of the 857 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06

Use standard Markdown links for external URLsin 16 of 632, across 8 files
Use wikilinks for internal vault connectionsin 15 of 632, across 7 files
Embed content using the exclamation mark prefixin 14 of 632, across 6 files
Ask for clarification if the user request is ambiguousin 13 of 632
Add frontmatter properties at the top of the filein 12 of 632, across 4 files
Verify note renders correctly in reading viewin 12 of 632, across 4 files
Include a visual element on every slidein 11 of 632, across 5 files
Left-align body text and listsin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Maintain 0.5 inch minimum marginsin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Wrap formulas containing double quotes in single quotesin 11 of 632, across 5 files
Repeat one distinctive visual motif across all slidesin 10 of 632, across 4 files
Use 36pt or larger for slide titlesin 10 of 632, across 4 files

Said here and by no other author read

Run the packaged launcher from the correct directory
Resolve the launcher path before the first CLI call
Run obsidian config get when configuration state is unknown
Map labels to YAML frontmatter tags

Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.