Obsidian Markdown

Teaches Claude to write syntactically correct Obsidian Flavored Markdown: wikilinks with double brackets, callouts with the blockquote-plus-keyword pattern, embeds prefixed with exclamation marks, and frontmatter properties that render in Obsidian's UI. Covers the gotchas that break rendering, like using Markdown links instead of wikilinks or writing ISO datetimes in YAML when Obsidian expects YYYY-MM-DD. Explicitly defers to kepano/obsidian-skills as the canonical reference when available, positioning itself as a fallback so you're not stranded if that marketplace isn't installed. The tables are scannable, the "What NOT to Do" section is honest about common mistakes, and it includes Mermaid, math, and all fourteen callout types.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

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

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Obsidian Flavored Markdown

Use this as a compact fallback for Obsidian-specific syntax. Prefer a separately installed kepano/obsidian-skills obsidian-markdown skill when available, then current Obsidian Help, for detailed or version-sensitive questions.

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.

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