obsidian

Installation
SKILL.md

Obsidian CLI

Use the obsidian CLI to interact with a running Obsidian instance. Requires Obsidian to be open.

Auto-launch

If an obsidian command fails with "Vault not found" or similar connection errors, Obsidian is not running. Launch it and retry:

open -a "Obsidian" && sleep 3 && obsidian <original command>

Wait a few seconds after launching before retrying, as Obsidian needs time to initialize.

Command reference

Run obsidian help to see all available commands. This is always up to date. Full docs: https://help.obsidian.md/cli

Syntax

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