Wiki Setup

Scaffolds a complete Obsidian vault with directories for concepts, entities, skills, references, synthesis, journal, and projects. Walks you through .env setup (vault path, source directories, optional QMD integration for semantic search), creates index.md, log.md, and hot.md at the root, and drops in sensible .obsidian config so it works out of the box. Useful when you're starting a personal knowledge base from scratch or fixing a broken vault structure. The _raw folder is clever: dump rough notes there and wiki-ingest will promote them to proper pages and clean up. Recommends Dataview and Git plugins but you install those yourself.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill wiki-setup --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Obsidian Setup — Vault Initialization

You are setting up a new Obsidian wiki vault (or repairing an existing one).

Hermes Skills Hub installs

When running in Hermes, first resolve the vault path with the user and run obsidian-wiki setup --vault-only --vault <absolute-path> (optional --timezone <IANA-name>). Review the existing shared wiki config before changing its vault selection. This initializes the packaged asset root and writing profile without touching other agents. If the CLI is unavailable, ask the user to install it; do not substitute broad setup or automatic dependency installation. Use the resulting OBSIDIAN_WIKI_REPO for shared templates and scripts: a hub-installed skill's location is not the framework repository root. Do not create a project .env unless the user explicitly wants a project override. Skip the optional Claude Stop-hook section entirely in Hermes. Sync and history imports remain separate opt-ins, not part of installing these skills.