Skills obsidian-vault

Search, create, and manage notes in the Obsidian vault with wikilinks and index notes. Use when user wants to find, create, or organize notes in Obsidian.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/obsidian-vault" ~/.claude/skills/mattpocock-skills-obsidian-vault && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: obsidian-vault/SKILL.md

source content

Obsidian Vault

Vault location

/mnt/d/Obsidian Vault/AI Research/

Mostly flat at root level.

Naming conventions

Index notes: aggregate related topics (e.g.,

Ralph Wiggum Index.md

Skills Index.md

RAG Index.md

)

Title case for all note names
No folders for organization - use links and index notes instead

Linking

Use Obsidian
```
[[wikilinks]]
```
syntax:
```
[[Note Title]]
```
Notes link to dependencies/related notes at the bottom
Index notes are just lists of
```
[[wikilinks]]
```

Workflows

Search for notes

# Search by filename
find "/mnt/d/Obsidian Vault/AI Research/" -name "*.md" | grep -i "keyword"

# Search by content
grep -rl "keyword" "/mnt/d/Obsidian Vault/AI Research/" --include="*.md"

Or use Grep/Glob tools directly on the vault path.

Create a new note

Use Title Case for filename
Write content as a unit of learning (per vault rules)
Add
```
[[wikilinks]]
```
to related notes at the bottom
If part of a numbered sequence, use the hierarchical numbering scheme

Find related notes

Search for

[[Note Title]]

across the vault to find backlinks:

grep -rl "\\[\\[Note Title\\]\\]" "/mnt/d/Obsidian Vault/AI Research/"

Find index notes

find "/mnt/d/Obsidian Vault/AI Research/" -name "*Index*"