
Wiki Setup
Initialize or repair an Obsidian wiki vault's required structure and configuration.
Install
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill wiki-setup -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Ar9av/obsidian-wiki3.6k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Initialize or repair an Obsidian wiki vault's required structure and configuration. Use for new-vault setup, .env/config creation, reconfiguration, or broken setup recovery.
Obsidian Setup, Vault Initialization
You are setting up a new Obsidian wiki vault (or repairing an existing one).
Step 1: Create .env
If .env doesn't exist, create it from .env.example. Ask the user for:
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Where should the vault live? →
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH- Default:
~/Documents/obsidian-wiki-vault - Must be an absolute path (after expansion)
- Default:
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Where are your source documents? →
OBSIDIAN_SOURCES_DIR- Can be multiple paths, comma-separated
- Default:
~/Documents - Local git repo clones (public or private, any host) can be listed here too, clone
the repo locally first, then add its path. See "Ingesting Git Repositories" in
wiki-ingest/SKILL.mdfor how repo sources are handled.
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Want to import Claude history? →
CLAUDE_HISTORY_PATH- Default: auto-discovers from
~/.claude - Set explicitly if Claude data is elsewhere
- Default: auto-discovers from
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Have QMD installed? →
QMD_WIKI_COLLECTION/QMD_PAPERS_COLLECTION/QMD_TRANSPORT- Optional. Enables semantic search in
wiki-queryand source discovery inwiki-ingest. - Default to
QMD_TRANSPORT=mcpunless the user wants the agent to call the localqmdCLI directly.
- Optional. Enables semantic search in
