The Obsidian Skills Field Guide — All 5 Skills, Every Command, 3 Copy-Paste Workflows

The copy-paste companion to the video. Steph Ango (kepano) — the CEO of Obsidian — personally published five agent skills that teach AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor) how to drive his own app: 42,169 GitHub stars in six months, MIT licensed. THIS INDEX: what each of the five shards does (Obsidian Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas, Obsidian CLI, Defuddle), the exact syntax verified against the SKILL.md files (wikilinks, embeds, callouts, block references, the 11-line Bases task dashboard), the full CLI command set including the plugin-dev commands, our real defuddle receipts (43,294 bytes of raw HTML down to 2,395 bytes of clean markdown — 18x smaller, we ran it ourselves), all three install doors verbatim from the README, three copy-paste workflows (The Librarian, The Research Pipeline, The Cartographer), and the honest caveats we hit on our own machine — including the exact error you get before you flip the one CLI toggle. Everything verified against the actual repo and Obsidian's docs, July 16 2026. Independent field notes from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with Obsidian.

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