obsidian

What This Skill Does

The Obsidian & SkillBoss integration for OpenClaw empowers your AI agent to bridge the gap between structured knowledge management and high-performance AI processing. At its core, the skill utilizes 'obsidian-cli' to interact directly with your local Obsidian vaults, allowing for seamless note creation, retrieval, and management. Beyond note-taking, it acts as a gateway to the SkillBoss API, providing unified access to over 50 state-of-the-art models. You can generate images, produce professional-grade video, convert speech to text, or perform complex web searches—all managed through a single API key configuration. By routing tasks to specialized providers like Bedrock, OpenAI, and Replicate, the agent dynamically selects the best tool for your specific objective.

Installation

To integrate this capability into your environment, use the OpenClaw management CLI. Ensure you have your SKILLBOSS_API_KEY exported in your environment variables. Execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/alvisdunlop/obsidians

After installation, verify connectivity by testing a simple chat prompt to ensure the API key is correctly authenticated.

Use Cases

• Second Brain Automation: Automatically append meeting summaries or research notes into your Obsidian vault using voice-to-text transcripts.
• Multimodal Content Creation: Generate assets (images or videos) directly within a workflow and store the local file paths or URLs as metadata inside your Markdown notes.
• Smart Research Assistant: Use the web search and scraper models to gather data, synthesize the results with a large language model, and save the organized findings to a specific project folder in your vault.
• Automated Documentation: Use the skill to parse documents or generate presentations, saving the output directly into your structured note-taking system.

Example Prompts

1. "Search for the latest research on neural architecture, summarize it, and save the findings to my 'AI Research' folder in Obsidian."
2. "Create an image of a futuristic workspace using the flux-1.1 model and save a note in Obsidian referencing the file location."
3. "Transcribe my latest meeting recording using the speech-to-text model and append the key action items to my 'Daily Notes' in Obsidian."

Tips & Limitations

• File System Permissions: Since this skill interacts with your local filesystem via obsidian-cli, ensure OpenClaw has the necessary read/write permissions for your vault directory.
• Model Routing: For critical tasks, specify the model ID explicitly. Use the generic smart-routing options only for casual queries to save on costs.
• API Latency: Large file processing or video generation tasks may take time; verify that your agent's timeout settings are configured to accommodate long-running API requests.