obsidian

name	obsidian
description	Use when unsure which Obsidian command to use, or when someone says "obsidian help", "log something to Obsidian", "what obsidian commands are there", "obsidian?". Routes to the correct skill based on intent. Also use as a fallback when an Obsidian operation does not clearly map to capture, log, daily, search, or brief.

Obsidian Help

The Obsidian skill family writes and reads Claude session context directly into your Obsidian vault — captures, session logs, daily activity notes, and search across everything Claude has logged. Every note written follows a consistent folder layout under Claude/ so the vault stays clean and navigable.

The five skills

Skill	Use when
/obsidian-brief	Loading project context before starting work — synthesizes recent notes without a search query (read-only, not persisted)
/obsidian-recap	Writing a synthesized daily recap of the project's work to the vault (persisted)
/obsidian-capture	Saving a note, decision, or thought to the vault right now
/obsidian-daily	Viewing today's Claude activity note
/obsidian-search	Finding past session logs or captures by keyword

Session notes are written automatically by the Stop/SessionEnd hooks — there is no manual "log this session" command. To turn those raw session notes into a readable narrative, use /obsidian-recap.

1. Identify intent

Ask the user one question: "What are you trying to do?"

Listen for these patterns:

• "brief", "catch me up", "context", "what have we been working on", "load context" → /obsidian-brief
• "recap", "daily recap", "wrap up the day", "summarize today", "end-of-day summary" → /obsidian-recap
• "capture", "save", "note", "jot", "quick note", "save this" → /obsidian-capture
• "today", "daily", "what did I do today", "daily note" → /obsidian-daily
• "find", "search", "look up", "what did I log about" → /obsidian-search

2. Route and hand off

Once intent is clear, tell the user which skill handles it and invoke it. For example: "That's a daily recap — starting /obsidian-recap now."

If the intent is ambiguous after one question, present the table above and ask which row fits.

Gotchas

• Do not attempt the operation yourself. This skill only identifies intent and routes. The other skills handle execution.
• "I want to do multiple things" — Route to the most urgent one first. Obsidian write operations on the same vault must not run in parallel; the daily note append has a single owner.
• OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH not set — If the user has not configured the vault path, all five skills will detect this and prompt them to run install.sh. Route to whichever skill the user intended — it will handle the missing env var gracefully.