bases
Installation
SKILL.md
Obsidian Bases
When to Use This Skill
| Use this skill when... | Use the alternative instead when... |
|---|---|
| Querying notes that share a Base view (status board, reading list, project tracker) | Doing a free-text search across the vault — use search-discovery |
| Creating a new entry that should land in a specific Base view | Creating an arbitrary note — use vault-files |
Listing what .base files and views exist in the vault |
Reading frontmatter on a single note — use properties |
Bases turn note collections into queryable views with frontmatter-driven filters and columns. The CLI exposes those views as structured data — JSON for the agent, CSV/TSV for piping, markdown for rendering.
Prerequisites
- Obsidian desktop v1.12.4+ with CLI enabled
- Obsidian must be running
- At least one
.basefile in the vault