obsidian-vault-manager

The Obsidian Vault Manager is a specialized skill for interacting with Obsidian vaults via the native Obsidian CLI. It is designed for knowledge workers, developers, and researchers who use Obsidian for note-taking, documentation, or Zettelkasten systems. By providing direct access to vault operations, this skill ensures that structural changes—such as moving or renaming files—are handled correctly without breaking wiki-links or internal references. It functions as a bridge between your automated workflows and your static markdown files.

• Perform vault-level operations including listing vaults, retrieving file paths, and exploring directory structures.

• Execute link-safe note moving and renaming commands, ensuring all [[wiki-links]] are automatically updated to maintain knowledge integrity.

• Streamline daily workflows with automated daily note creation and template-based file generation.

• Support complex content retrieval using search queries with optional filtering by folder path or output formatting.

• Enable structured data insertion by reading existing note frontmatter and formatting to ensure consistency across the vault.

• Always verify the native 'obsidian' binary is installed before use; it is not an npm package.

• Use the CLI specifically for structural operations (moving, renaming, listing). For writing substantial content, pair this tool with standard Write operations after resolving file paths.

• When creating or appending content, utilize 'printf' or similar methods to correctly handle multi-line content, frontmatter, and newlines to prevent truncation.

• Always inspect existing notes to mirror current local formatting, tag structures, and frontmatter requirements.

• Use the specific 'obsidian move' command instead of standard shell 'mv' to preserve the integrity of internal vault links.