Canvas

Turns Obsidian canvas files into a visual reference layer for your wiki, alongside /save and /autoresearch. You drop images, PDFs, text cards, and wiki pages onto an infinite board, and it handles the JSON editing and auto-positioning inside labeled zones. Integrates with /banana to pull in recent screenshots. The skill is self-contained but defers to kepano's json-canvas substrate for spec questions, focusing on wiki-scoped workflows like zone layout and attachment organization. It's a fallback implementation that sits above the primitive, giving you a visual spatial layer without leaving the terminal. Open wiki/canvases/main.canvas in Obsidian to see the board.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add agricidaniel/claude-obsidian --skill canvas --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Canvas

Treat a canvas as a vault-scoped JSON Canvas document. Keep reads read-only and route every requested mutation through one recoverable transaction.

Resolve the installed product root from this skill's own location, not from the vault or current working directory:

PRODUCT_ROOT=/absolute/path/to/installed/claude-obsidian
CORE="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/claude-obsidian.py"
test -f "$CORE"

Every ../wiki/references/ link in this file resolves the same way, relative to this skill's own directory under $PRODUCT_ROOT, never relative to the selected vault's wiki/ directory.

Choose the syntax source

Prefer a separately installed kepano/obsidian-skills json-canvas skill for format details. Otherwise read references/canvas-spec.md. The open standard is JSON Canvas 1.0.

Use this skill for vault workflow and transaction safety even when an upstream syntax skill is available.