Obsidian, CLI, and the Unix way

I’ve written before that Claude Code helps me run Obsidian. Judging by Twitter, I’m not the only one. The Obsidian creator himself has put out a set of skills for Claude (and other agents that support them): github.com/kepano/obsidian-skills.

A small thing but a nice one — recent Claude versions write .base files noticeably better. (Yes, I’ve nearly fully moved off Dataview for new use cases.)

Another trend worth flagging — CLIs. Claude Code, Aider and tools like them kicked off a CLI renaissance. I love a good CLI: it’s much easier to wire one into other agents and pipelines than a GUI.

And Obsidian now has a CLI of its own: help.obsidian.md/cli.

As someone once tortured by “Windows” and “platforms for everything”, I’m a fan of the Unix way — small tools you can wire together however you like, rather than one monolithic ecosystem.