| name | action-items |
| description | This skill should be used when the user asks to "find my open action items", "show my tasks", "what do I need to do", "list my todos", "find tasks assigned to me", "find tasks for [name]", or "what are my open items". Retrieves all open action items from meeting notes (tasks tagged with a person's name) and daily notes (unchecked checkboxes) across the Obsidian vault. |
| argument-hint | [name] [vault=VaultName] |
Action Items
Retrieves all open action items across the Obsidian vault - combining tasks assigned by name in meeting notes with personal todos from daily notes.
CLI Path
Always invoke the CLI via /usr/local/bin/obsidian (full path required for sandbox compatibility).
Vault Structure
Daily notes live in Daily/ (named YYYY-MM-DD.md).
Meeting notes live in Meetings/Work/ and Meetings/Personal/.
The obsidian CLI resolves the active vault automatically - no hardcoded paths needed.
Arguments
Parse $ARGUMENTS for two optional values:
- Owner name: any word that does not contain
=. Default: Adam.
- Vault name: a
vault=<name> keyword argument. Default: Core.
Examples:
/action-items → owner=Adam, vault=Core/action-items Sarah → owner=Sarah, vault=Core/action-items vault=Work → owner=Adam, vault=Work/action-items Sarah vault=Work → owner=Sarah, vault=Work
The owner name must match the wikilink tag used in meeting notes (e.g. [[Sarah]]).
Retrieval Process
Step 1: Meeting Note Action Items
Run /usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo and filter for tasks tagged with the owner's name. Replace OWNER with the resolved name:
/usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq --arg name "OWNER" '[.[] | select(.text | test("\\[\\[\($name)\\]\\]"))]'
This returns tasks of the form - [ ] [[OWNER]]: <description> found across all notes.
Step 2: Daily Note Todos
Daily notes use first-person tasks (no name tag). Only include these when the owner is the default user (Adam). Filter by file path:
/usr/local/bin/obsidian tasks todo format=json 2>&1 | jq '[.[] | select(.file | startswith("Daily/")) | select(.text | length > 6)]'
The length > 6 check filters out empty checkboxes (- [ ] is 6 chars).
Step 3: Present Combined Results
Present results as three separate tables, in this order:
- Meetings - tasks from
Meetings/ notes (only shown when results exist)
- Daily - personal todos from
Daily/ notes (only shown for default owner, when results exist)
- Projects - tasks from any other path not matching the above (only shown when results exist)
Show a total count at the end.
Output Format
Each section is a markdown table with columns: #, Task, Source.
- Meetings table:
Source = clickable link to the meeting note
- Daily table:
Source = clickable link to the daily note
- Projects table:
Source = clickable link to the file
Obsidian URI Links
Build a clickable link for each source using the Obsidian URI scheme. Use the resolved vault name (default Core). URL-encode the file path (replace spaces with %20, etc.) using Python or jq.
Format: obsidian://open?vault=<VaultName>&file=<url-encoded-path>
The link label is:
- Meetings: meeting title (filename without date prefix and
.md)
- Daily: the date (YYYY-MM-DD extracted from filename)
- Projects: the file path
To URL-encode the path in a shell pipeline, use Python:
python3 -c "import urllib.parse, sys; print(urllib.parse.quote(sys.argv[1], safe='/'))" "path/to/file"
Or inline with jq using @uri:
jq -r '.file | @uri'
Note: @uri in jq encodes slashes too - if you need to preserve /, use Python instead.
Example rendered output:
### Meetings
| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 1 | Confirm Glean doc searchability | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |
| 2 | Start SailPoint SCIM testing | [Teleport and Charon Updates](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Meetings%2FWork%2F2026-02-20%20Teleport%20and%20Charon%20Updates.md) |
### Daily
| # | Task | Source |
|---|------|--------|
| 3 | Destroy EC2 instances for Mike Beiter Demo | [2026-02-26](obsidian://open?vault=Core&file=Daily%2F2026-02-26.md) |
---
X open items total
Numbers are sequential across all tables (meetings start at 1, daily continues the count, projects continues after that).
Strip the [[Name]]: prefix and wikilink brackets from all task text for clean output.
Strip markdown link syntax (e.g. [text](url)) down to just the text portion.
Strip [[wikilinks]] formatting from all task text, converting them to plain text.
Strip the - [ ] checkbox prefix from task text.
