Obsidian Skills
Five skills that teach an agent the open formats and tools of the Obsidian note-taking app: Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts and properties; Bases files with views, filters and formulas; JSON Canvas files with nodes, edges and groups; the Obsidian command-line interface for reading, creating and searching notes and tasks; and a web-page cleaner that extracts readable Markdown. Aimed at people who keep notes in Obsidian and want an agent to edit their vault files correctly.
- Knowledge management
- Document organization
Source: kepano/obsidian-skills · pinned commit a1dc48e
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EDITORIAL GUIDE
Distinguish vault file editing from controlling Obsidian
Markdown, database views and canvas files are different artifacts. File guidance does not automatically provide application access or web extraction.
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When this project fits
Use this collection when a known Obsidian artifact needs editing: linked notes, structured views or a relationship canvas. The README identifies these formats alongside application control and web extraction, which helps separate a file-format task from an application-operation task.
When to choose something else
Do not grant whole-vault editing for one note, or assume an available instruction means the application command tool is installed. A syntactically valid canvas can still misrepresent the relationships you intended, and a database view can silently exclude records through its filter.
What to provide and what to expect
Provide the artifact type, representative existing file and expected links or fields. Expect a change suited to that format. Ask for a small diff so properties, cross-links and unrelated notes remain inspectable rather than receiving a wholesale vault rewrite.
Tools, permissions and boundaries
File editing needs scoped access and a recoverable copy. Application control requires the actual compatible application tooling; web extraction adds network access. Decide which capability is necessary before granting it, and keep external page content as untrusted reference material.
The tradeoff and an alternative
For a single note, editing directly in the app may be simpler. Format-specific guidance is more useful for repetitive structured work. Its maintenance cost is keeping generated files compatible with your application and conventions, especially when using structured views rather than plain text.
A small acceptance exercise
Proposed exercise: link three notes and build a view selecting exactly two of them. Open a disposable vault, check the links resolve, confirm the excluded note remains intact, and inspect the view after changing one property. Keep a before-copy for comparison.
Source, version and what was actually read
The complete pinned README and its format/tool categories were read. Individual format instructions, the application command tool and extraction implementation were not evaluated. LuluSkill did not install or run this project; the exercise above is a proposed reader check, not a reported result.
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