Obsidian Markdown

This is a comprehensive reference for working with Obsidian's extended Markdown syntax. You'll want this when you're building tools that interact with Obsidian vaults or need to generate valid Obsidian notes programmatically. It covers the basics like wikilinks and embeds, but also gets into the nuances like block references, callout types, and how to properly escape characters in tables. The skill document itself is essentially a detailed cheat sheet, which makes sense since Obsidian's flavor combines CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown, and its own extensions. If you're building automation around note taking or knowledge management in Obsidian, this gives you the syntax patterns you need without having to dig through documentation.

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Install

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

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Obsidian Flavored Markdown Skill

This skill enables skills-compatible agents to create and edit valid Obsidian Flavored Markdown, including all Obsidian-specific syntax extensions.

Overview

Obsidian uses a combination of Markdown flavors:

CommonMark
GitHub Flavored Markdown
LaTeX for math
Obsidian-specific extensions (wikilinks, callouts, embeds, etc.)

Basic Formatting

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

This is a paragraph.

This is another paragraph (blank line between creates separate paragraphs).

For a line break within a paragraph, add two spaces at the end  
or use Shift+Enter.

Headings

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
#### Heading 4
##### Heading 5
###### Heading 6

Text Formatting

SKILL.md on GitHub

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Details

Repository: github.com/freestylefly/canghe-skills
Category: Office & Documents
First seen: Jun 3, 2026