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Obsidian Init — Development skill for Claude Code

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Scan your vault and generate a _CLAUDE.md operating manual, index.md catalog, and log.md.

How to install Obsidian Init

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/eugeniughelbur-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-init/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/eugeniughelbur-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-init && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain/HEAD/commands/obsidian-init.md -o ~/.claude/skills/eugeniughelbur-obsidian-second-brain-obsidian-init/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Obsidian Init does

description: Scan your vault and generate a _CLAUDE.md operating manual, index.md catalog, and log.md

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill. Execute `/obsidian-init`:

Call list_files_in_vault() to map the full vault structure
Spawn parallel subagents to discover vault context simultaneously:
- Dashboard agent: read Home.md or equivalent dashboard
- Templates agent: read all files in Templates/
- Boards agent: read all files in Boards/
- **Samples age

Alternatives in Development

Obsidian MCP Server — Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian vault notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP 686 ★
Search Vault — Quick search across Obsidian vault using keywords or semantic similarity 109 ★
Bm Scan — Build or refresh the basemind index by running basemind scan via the CLI — works without the MCP server (use i 94 ★