obsidian-cli

What This Skill Does

The obsidian-cli skill enables OpenClaw to interact directly with a running instance of the Obsidian note-taking application. By leveraging the official CLI (introduced in v1.12+), this skill acts as a bridge between your AI agent and your personal knowledge base. It allows for deep automation of your workflow, including reading and writing to daily notes, inspecting vault structures, and managing various file operations. Because it communicates via IPC (Inter-Process Communication), it provides a low-latency way to log tasks, update project headers, or query information stored in Markdown files without leaving the agent's context.

Installation

To install this skill, use the ClawHub CLI command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/adolago/obsidian-cli. Ensure you have Obsidian version 1.12 or higher installed on your local machine. Navigate to your Obsidian Settings, go to the General tab, and verify that the "Enable CLI" option is toggled on. If you are on Linux, ensure your path configuration correctly references the Obsidian binary without conflicting Electron flags.

Use Cases

• Automated Task Logging: Automatically append action items from meeting notes to your daily note.
• Knowledge Retrieval: Use the agent to quickly scan or read the contents of your daily journals to summarize progress.
• Vault Maintenance: Perform quick health checks on your vault size and file count to ensure performance optimization.
• Contextual Note Entry: Add timestamps or formatted headers to current notes without manual input.

Example Prompts

1. "Open today's daily note and append a task: 'Follow up with the project lead about the Q4 report'."
2. "Read the content of my daily note for today and summarize the main points I worked on."
3. "Show me the current path and total file count of my active vault to ensure I am using the correct workspace."

Tips & Limitations

• Always Running: Obsidian must be actively running in the background for this skill to communicate with your vault.
• Platform Specifics: On macOS and Windows, the binary is usually mapped, but Linux users may require a custom wrapper script to handle IPC correctly.
• Focus Management: Use the silent flag when appending information to avoid having your active window interrupted by Obsidian popping into focus.
• Security: As this tool reads and writes to your local filesystem, ensure your Obsidian vault is stored in a secure, non-public directory.