Claude-obsidian

Judgement

What it is

Integration

What it does

A Claude Code plugin and skills that file any source you drop in into an Obsidian vault, linking it into a knowledge graph of plain Markdown.

Adopt it when

You use Obsidian and Claude Code and want Claude to organise your notes for you.

Watch out

Created in 2026, and an agent editing your vault can move or rewrite notes in ways you did not intend; keep it under version control.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Command line

Built with

Python and Shell

How established

Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v3.0.1.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Claude-obsidian → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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