obsidian-cli - Automate Obsidian vaults through the official CLI
Automates Obsidian vault files, notes, search, tasks, metadata, links, bookmarks, bases, and related CLI operations.
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Updated: 2026-10-06Typical Inputs
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What this skill does
- Read and manage vault files
- Create and edit notes
- Manage daily notes
- Search vault content
- Query and update tasks
- Inspect tags and properties
- Analyze links and structure
- Manage bookmarks
- Query database views
- Inspect vault information
- Open Obsidian views
- Control Obsidian state
Inputs
- Obsidian vault
- File paths
- Note content
- Search queries
- Task references
- Tags and properties
- Bookmark targets
- Base view names
- CLI command options
Outputs
- Vault information
- Note contents
- Created or modified notes
- Daily note changes
- Search results
- Task status changes
- Tag and property reports
- Link structure reports
- Bookmark lists
- Base query results
- Obsidian view changes
- Application state changes
Requirements
- Obsidian 1.12 or later
- Running Obsidian instance
- Enabled Obsidian CLI
- obsidian binary in PATH
- IPC access to Obsidian