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obsidian-headless

An AI agent skill from obsidianmd/obsidian-skills, scored 68 out of 100 by code.

68/ 100C

Code score by group

  • Spec20/20
  • Description16/20
  • Procedure3/15
  • Done criteria4/15
  • Resources10/10
  • Scripts5/8
  • Safety7/7
  • Upkeep3/5

It loses the most points in Procedure (12), the group that checks whether the steps are numbered, read the context first and say what to do when something fails.

What the author says it does

Sync and publish Obsidian vaults from the command line with Obsidian Headless (`ob`), without the desktop app. Use when the user wants to set up or run Obsidian Sync or Obsidian Publish on a server, in CI, or from a terminal, or change a vault's Sync or Publish settings.

This is the description in the skill's own SKILL.md, written by its author, not by SkillCheatSheet.

Repository
obsidianmd/obsidian-skills
Folder
plugins/obsidian/skills/obsidian-headless
License
MIT
GitHub stars
51,757
SKILL.md lines
80
Other files
0

Add obsidian-headless to your agent

npx skills add obsidianmd/obsidian-skills --skill obsidian-headless

The command uses the open skills CLI. A skill is instructions and scripts your agent will follow, so read it first: open the folder on GitHub at the commit that was scored.

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