obsidian-paper-vault SKILL.md skillA
obsidian-paper-vault from aperivue/medsci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/obsidian-paper-vault@git:20261004.5b44a65Pins git:20261004.5b44a65 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aperivue/medsci-skills
- Path
skills/obsidian-paper-vault/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261004.5b44a65, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 11, 2026
- Size
- 6,313 bytes
- Repository stars
- 366
- License
- MIT
Use when turning a folder of research PDFs into Obsidian notes, even if Obsidian is not named. Writes one templated literature note per paper and extracts cross-linked atomic concept notes, never overwriting existing ones. A .bib or Zotero library is /lit-sync.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Obsidian Paper Vault Converts a folder of research PDFs into a two-layer Obsidian vault: **literature notes** (one per paper, templated) and **atomic concept notes** (synthesized across papers). ## Relationship to /lit-sync Both skills write literature and concept notes into the same vault folders. They enter from opposite ends and must not overwrite each other. | | `/lit-sync` | `obsidian-paper-vault` | |---|---|---| | Input | Zotero collection / `refs.bib` | a folder of PDFs | | Note key | citekey | short descriptive title | | Owns | `manuscript/_src/refs.bib` | extracted-text cache | **Never overwrite an existing note.** If a note for the paper already exists (by title, DOI, or citekey), report it and skip. When both skills are in play, `/lit-sync` notes are the bibliographic spine; this skill's notes are the read-through summaries. ## Step 0: Resolve the vault layout — ask, do not assume Establish three paths before writing anything: 1. **Vault root** — from the user, or `$OBSIDIAN_VAULT`. Never guess a home-directory path. 2. **Literature notes folder** — default `Literature/`. If the vault already has a folder …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/obsidian-paper-vault@sha256:996316c59d9cbb05The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.5b44a65, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Aug 11, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261004.5b44a65 latest | 2026-10-04 | 5b44a65 | 6,313 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.7696fb9 | 2026-10-02 | 7696fb9 | 6,331 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.c8ed96c | 2026-09-30 | c8ed96c | 6,170 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.30387c2 | 2026-09-30 | 30387c2 | 6,185 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.913abeb | 2026-09-30 | 913abeb | 6,469 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260811.90d1e23 | 2026-08-11 | 90d1e23 | 8,013 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6313 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
aperivue/medsci-skills · 366 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7enx576m7y6ebogp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aperivue/medsci-skills/obsidian-paper-vault GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/996316c59d9cbb053c147e699b0b5fac972e32052689d02e9df9f6b15b9d13d7
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