Obsidian Flavored Markdown

Use this as a compact fallback for Obsidian-specific syntax. Prefer a separately installed kepano/obsidian-skills obsidian-markdown skill when available, then current Obsidian Help, for detailed or version-sensitive questions.

Resolve the installed product root from this skill's own location, not from the vault or current working directory:

PRODUCT_ROOT=/absolute/path/to/installed/claude-obsidian
CORE="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/claude-obsidian.py"
test -f "$CORE"

Every ../wiki/references/ link in this file resolves the same way, relative to this skill's own directory under $PRODUCT_ROOT, never relative to the selected vault's wiki/ directory.

Answer syntax questions read-only. If the user requests a vault edit, draft the complete note, read operation-transactions.md, and build one claude-obsidian.transaction.v1 bundle with operation_type: markdown and only wiki/ targets. Inspect it, then set APPROVAL_SHA256 to the returned approval_sha256 after review and apply it through the same vault-bound plan. A canonical page create or removal includes an active index or MOC update in that bundle; update the overview only when its stable high-level synthesis changed:

python3 "$CORE" transaction inspect "$BUNDLE" --vault "$VAULT"
python3 "$CORE" transaction apply "$BUNDLE" --vault "$VAULT" \
  --approved-plan-sha256 "$APPROVAL_SHA256"

Never write a note directly.

Properties

Use flat YAML properties and YYYY-MM-DD dates. Quote wikilinks inside YAML.

---
type: concept
title: "Contextual Retrieval"
created: 2026-07-11
updated: 2026-07-11
status: developing
tags:
  - retrieval
  - ai/knowledge
aliases:
  - Context-aware retrieval
related:
  - "[[Retrieval]]"
sources:
  - "[[Anthropic Contextual Retrieval]]"
---