Optional Obsidian integrations
claude-obsidian's baseline vault uses Markdown, JSON, and Obsidian core features. No community plugin, theme, or downloaded executable is required.
Install and open Obsidian
Use the current installation instructions at Obsidian Help. Open the separate user-vault folder, not the claude-obsidian product checkout.
Built-in Properties, Backlinks, Outline, and Graph views can improve navigation.
Use Bases only when the installed Obsidian version supports the .base syntax
you need. The obsidian-bases skill can draft a file, but application rendering
still requires verification in Obsidian.
Community plugins
Community plugins are optional third-party code. Before recommending or installing one:
- Confirm the user's actual need and obtain approval for the installation.
- Review the current publisher, source repository, requested permissions, release provenance, and maintenance state.
- Install through Obsidian's supported interface. Do not copy an unverified
main.jsor download a floating release from an agent workflow. - Back up the vault and test in a non-critical copy when the plugin can rewrite notes or properties.
- Record the plugin and version in user-vault documentation, not product code.
Templating, calendar, quick-capture, Git, Dataview, semantic-search, and theme plugins can be useful, but none are bundled or assumed by the baseline.
Git and sync plugins
An Obsidian Git or sync plugin is a backup convenience, not claude-obsidian's
transaction or checkpoint mechanism. Background commits can race with an agent
operation and make exact-operation checkpoints ambiguous. Disable overlapping
automatic commits while applying an operation, or use a separate backup method.
Run checkpoint only when the user explicitly requests Git history.
Web Clipper
Treat browser-clipped material as untrusted source input. Capture it into the configured inbox, preserve its locator and hash, and ingest it through the normal provenance workflow. A clip is not evidence of truth merely because it was successfully imported.