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Obsidian Vault Manager — Development skill for Claude Code

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A Claude Code skill that turns your Obsidian vault into a project tracking system with dashboards, weekly reviews, and uniform project notes.

How to install Obsidian Vault Manager

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open hugosantanna/obsidian-vault-manager and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Obsidian Vault Manager does

A Claude Code skill that turns your Obsidian vault into a project tracking system with dashboards, weekly reviews, and uniform project notes.

Alternatives in Development

Om Weekly — Weekly synthesis — cross-session review of vault activity, North Star alignment, patterns, uncaptured wins, an 4.6k ★
Obsidian MCP Server — Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian vault notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP 686 ★
Obsidian Decide — Extract decisions from this conversation and log them to the right project notes 277 ★

README

Obsidian Vault Manager

A Claude Code skill that turns your Obsidian vault into a project tracking system. It maintains a dashboard, tracks status across projects, flags stale work, and generates weekly reviews — all through natural language.

What it does

You say	It does
"update my vault"	Reads all projects, asks what changed, updates your dashboard and project notes
"weekly review"	Summarizes the week, identifies blockers, asks for next week's priorities
"what am I working on"	Shows your current project status and suggests what to focus on
"new project about X"	Creates a project folder, note from template, and adds it to the dashboard

On first run, it walks you through a setup: discovers your vault structure, asks how you organize projects, creates a dashboard and templates, then adapts to your workflow.

Requirements

Claude Code
Obsidian with the Local REST API plugin installed and running
The Obsidian MCP server connected to Claude Code

Connecting Obsidian to Claude Code

Install the Local REST API community plugin in Obsidian
Enable it and note the API key from its settings
Add the Obsidian MCP server to your Claude Code config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "obsidian-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Installation

Option A: Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/hugosantanna/obsidian-vault-manager.git ~/.claude/skills/obsidian-vault-manager

Option B: Manual

Copy `SKILL.md` to `~/.claude/skills/obsidian-vault-manager/SKILL.md`.

How it works

Setup (first run)

The first time you say "update my vault", the skill:

Scans your vault to understand its structure
Asks you to define pr