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Repo No. 37Steph Ango · Updated 15 September 2026 · In print
Skills Docs · No. 37
Steph Ango
kepano / obsidian-skills
Agent skills for Obsidian. Teach your agent to use Obsidian CLI and open formats including Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas.
Start reading — 1 min6 skills2,236 words
Inside this issue
1 — Install
npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills/plugin marketplace add kepano/obsidian-skillsMIT49k stars2,236 wordsUpdated 15 September 2026
2 — Skills
6 skills · 10 minutes- DefuddleExtract clean Markdown from HTML pages with Defuddle CLI.1 min
- JSON CanvasCreate and edit JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections.3 min
- KnapRender Markdown from templates and structured data using Knap CLI.2 min
- Obsidian BasesCreate and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries.2 min
- Obsidian CLIInteract with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks…1 min
Skills Docs · Repo No. 37Whole repo as markdown
Provenance
- Owner
- kepano · User
- Licence
- MIT
- Last updated
- Published from
- github.com/
kepano/ obsidian-skills
| Week | Installs |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | 18,021 |
| Week 2 | 19,930 |
| Week 3 | 18,800 |
| Week 4 | 21,251 |
| Week 5 | 14,474 |
| Week 6 | 6,560 |
| Week 7 | 5,448 |
| Week 8 | 5,374 |
Front matter
From the READMEAgent Skills for use with Obsidian.
These skills follow the Agent Skills specification (opens in a new tab) so they can be used by any skills-compatible agent, including Claude Code, Codex, and Open Code.
Installation
Marketplace
/plugin marketplace add kepano/obsidian-skills
/plugin install obsidian@obsidian-skillsnpx skills
npx skills add git@github.com:kepano/obsidian-skills.gitInstead of ssh, if you prefer to use https:
npx skills add https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skillsManually
Claude Code
Add the contents of this repo to a /.claude folder in the root of your Obsidian vault (or whichever folder you’re using with Claude Code). See more in the official Claude Skills documentation (opens in a new tab).
Codex
Copy the skills/ directory into your Codex skills path (typically ~/.codex/skills). See the Agent Skills specification (opens in a new tab) for the standard skill format.
OpenCode
Clone the entire repo into the OpenCode skills directory (~/.opencode/skills/):
git clone https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills.git ~/.opencode/skills/obsidian-skillsDo not copy only the inner skills/ folder — clone the full repo so the directory structure is ~/.opencode/skills/obsidian-skills/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md.
OpenCode auto-discovers all SKILL.md files under ~/.opencode/skills/. No changes to opencode.json or any config file are needed. Skills become available after restarting OpenCode.
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| obsidian-markdown (opens in a new tab) | Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown (opens in a new tab) (.md) with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax |
| obsidian-bases (opens in a new tab) | Create and edit Obsidian Bases (opens in a new tab) (.base) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries |
| json-canvas (opens in a new tab) | Create and edit JSON Canvas (opens in a new tab) files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections |
| obsidian-cli (opens in a new tab) | Interact with Obsidian vaults via the Obsidian CLI (opens in a new tab) including plugin and theme development |
| defuddle (opens in a new tab) | Extract clean markdown from web pages using Defuddle (opens in a new tab), removing clutter to save tokens |
| knap (opens in a new tab) | Render Markdown templates from JSON or CSV data using Knap (opens in a new tab), including batch file generation |
Colophon
How this issue was made- Source
- github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills, branch
main, last pushed 15 September 2026. - Licence
- MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.
- Discovery
- 6 skills found by walking the repository tree for
SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed:skills/*/SKILL.md. - Issue colours
- Resolved from a deterministic hash of the owner name. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.
- Heading repairs
- None needed in the front matter: the outline was already valid.
- Spec compliance
- Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.
- Images
- Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.
- Marketplace
- A plugin manifest is published at
.claude-plugin/marketplace.jsonby Steph Ango, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree. - Signal
- Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.
- Agent surfaces
- The whole issue is available as one markdown document at
/kepano/obsidian-skills.md, and each skill at its own.mdURL. - Publication
- Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.