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Create, modify, and validate Obsidian-compatible JSON Canvas (.canvas) files to build visual boards, mind maps, flowcharts, or note-link diagrams with nodes, edges, groups, and colors.

Build and tune Obsidian Base files to define database-like views, filters, formulas, and summaries for notes, so you can craft tables, cards, lists, and dashboards inside your vault.

A comprehensive guide for setting up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows for Obsidian plugins using GitHub Actions. This setup automates critical tasks like build validation on every push, manifest consistency checks, version number bumping, and structured GitHub releases, ensuring robust and reliable plugin deployment lifecycles.

Control an open Obsidian vault from the CLI: read, create, append, search, manage metadata, run plugin/theme reloads, capture errors, and take diagnostics screenshots without leaving the terminal.

This skill guides the creation of structured, importable JSON templates for the Obsidian Web Clipper. It facilitates the analysis of a target website's content structure, including DOM, Schema.org data, and CSS selectors. Users can map complex web elements into a robust template format, incorporating advanced logic like conditionals and loops, ensuring the resulting clipboard data is consistently formatted and ready for immediate use.

A comprehensive guide for developers to diagnose and fix the six most common errors encountered when building Obsidian plugins. It covers critical technical issues such as null pointer exceptions, manifest loading failures, incorrect CSS paths, command registration timing, and state persistence bugs, ensuring reliable and stable plugin functionality.

This comprehensive workflow guides users through building a complete Obsidian plugin from an empty directory. It covers all necessary components, including the core Plugin class, settings panel, command definitions, ribbon icons, manifest configuration, and production build setup using esbuild and TypeScript. It is essential for developers starting a new plugin project or learning the entire Obsidian plugin lifecycle.

Master the art of building complex, production-grade user interfaces for Obsidian plugins. This guide covers implementing custom sidebar views (ItemView), interactive modal dialogs (for forms and confirmations), context menus, status bar widgets, and advanced editor commands. Learn how to interact with the Obsidian Vault API for file manipulation, significantly enhancing your plugin's functionality and user experience.

A comprehensive guide to managing and reducing costs associated with Obsidian's paid services (Sync, Publish) and external API calls from community plugins. Learn how to audit vault size, implement secure exclusion patterns for sync, and utilize coding techniques like caching and rate limiting to control usage fees from external services (e.g., AI).

A comprehensive guide for developers implementing robust data persistence and file handling within Obsidian plugins. It covers best practices for saving plugin configurations, reliable vault file I/O (read, write, append), safe manipulation of YAML frontmatter via metadata cache, and registering event listeners for file renames and deletions. Essential for building stable, data-intensive plugins.

This tool gathers comprehensive diagnostic evidence from an Obsidian vault. It collects details such as app versions, installed plugins, appearance settings, file statistics, and console errors into a structured markdown report. Use it when troubleshooting persistent issues or preparing detailed bug reports for developer support.

A comprehensive guide for the full lifecycle release and distribution of Obsidian plugins. This skill covers all necessary steps, including building release assets, managing version bumps, creating GitHub releases, and submitting the required Pull Requests to the official Obsidian community plugin directory. Essential for developers launching or updating plugins.