obsidian-daily

name	obsidian-daily
description	Show or open today's Claude activity note in the Obsidian vault. Use when someone says "show today's Obsidian note", "open daily note", "what did I do today", "obsidian daily", "today's activity", "what did Claude do today". Read-only — does not modify any files.

Obsidian Daily

View today's Claude activity note. This skill is read-only — it never dispatches obsidian-writer.

Step 1 — Check configuration

Read OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH from the environment:

• Bash: bash -c 'echo $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH'
• PowerShell: $env:OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH

If empty, stop and tell the user:

"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH is not set. Re-run install.sh and provide your vault path when prompted, or add it manually to ~/.claude/settings.json under the env key."

Also read:

• OBSIDIAN_PROJECTS_FOLDER (empty string if unset)
• CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR (or fall back to current working directory) — used to compute the repo slug

Step 2 — Compute the daily note path

Today's local date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

1. Compute project_slug: basename of CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR (or cwd), lowercase, non-alphanumeric characters replaced with hyphens, max 30 characters.
2. Use OBSIDIAN_PROJECTS_FOLDER if set, otherwise default to Claude/Projects.
3. effective_folder may be multi-segment (e.g. Claude/Projects) — treat each /-delimited segment as a path component.
4. Daily note path: <OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH>/<effective_folder>/<project_slug>/daily/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md

Step 3 — Read today's daily note

Use the Read tool to read the file at the computed path.

Step 4 — Display

Show the file contents inline in the conversation.

If the file does not exist, say:

"No activity logged today yet for this project. Session notes appear here automatically when Claude Code stops; use /obsidian-capture to save a note or /obsidian-recap to synthesize a daily recap."

Step 5 — Open in Obsidian (optional)

If OBSIDIAN_CLI_MODE is "rest-api", attempt to open the note in Obsidian's editor. Compute the vault-relative path (strip the vault root prefix, use forward slashes, URL-encode the result), then call:

curl -sk "https://127.0.0.1:${OBSIDIAN_REST_API_PORT:-27124}/open/<url-encoded-vault-relative-path>"

If this fails, or if CLI mode is "filesystem", skip silently — the note was already displayed inline in step 4.

Gotchas

• This skill is strictly read-only. Do not dispatch obsidian-writer under any circumstance.
• The date must be today's local date, not UTC.
• If the vault path contains spaces, URL-encode it properly in the curl command.
• Project slug computation: basename(cwd).toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').slice(0, 30)