Wiki Cli

Wraps the Obsidian CLI (built into Obsidian 1.12+) so Claude can read, write, and search your vault notes without installing an MCP server or REST API plugin. Part of the claude-obsidian v1.7+ transport layer. The skill auto-detects whether the CLI binary is available and falls back to direct filesystem operations if not. You get cleaner auth (no TLS bypass), lower latency than HTTP, and better error messages when things break. The author recommends preferring kepano/obsidian-skills if available since Steph Ango's canonical CLI skill is the authoritative reference. Desktop only, so mobile workflows still need filesystem writes.

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last updated: May 28, 2026

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Install

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

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Obsidian CLI read transport

Use this skill only to detect transport and read or search a selected vault. The official executable is obsidian; binary presence alone does not prove it is usable.

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
DETECT_TRANSPORT="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/detect-transport.sh"
test -f "$DETECT_TRANSPORT"

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.

Detect safely

Probe without persisting host state:

bash "$DETECT_TRANSPORT" --peek --vault "$VAULT"

Trust available.cli.usable, not merely present or exit status. A supported CLI can still be unavailable because the Obsidian app is not running, command line access is disabled, or its response is an error. Use filesystem reads as the portable fallback.

Persist a refreshed .vault-meta/transport.json only when the user or setup workflow asks for a transport snapshot:

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