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obsidian-rest-api

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By davepoon/buildwithclaude (GitHub) · coding · 3,743 stars · scanned at commit 941b335

Call the Obsidian Local REST API directly (over HTTP) for vault operations the mcp__obsidian__* tools do NOT expose — move/rename a note, overwrite a whole file atomically (PUT), act on the currently-open active file, run an Obsidian command, open a note in the UI, list all tags, or do date-specific periodic-note CRUD. Prefer the mcp__obsidian__* tools for plain read/append/patch/delete/search; fall back to this skill only when the required method is missing from MCP.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'obsidian-rest-api' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'obsidian-rest-api' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named obsidian-rest-api already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/davepoon/buildwithclaude' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '941b335e8e2d748d9855f77c0fc0aaec924b75b9' -- 'plugins/all-skills/skills/obsidian-rest-api' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/all-skills/skills/obsidian-rest-api' ~/.agents/skills/'obsidian-rest-api' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'obsidian-rest-api' ~/.claude/skills/'obsidian-rest-api' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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