Search Vault

SkillSearch

Use when the user wants to find notes by keyword or filename, or says "search", "find notes", or "look for".

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Search Vault skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian in skills/search/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Search for notes by keyword or filename match.

Workflow

  1. Call obsidian_search_notes with the user's query
  2. Present matching files in a clear list
  3. Ask if the user would like to read any of the results

Arguments

The search query follows the skill invocation. Example: /search cooking recipes

Tips

  • This is a simple text match (keyword in filename or content)
  • For semantic/meaning-based search, suggest /research instead
  • Results are capped at 20 matches

Signals

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Item type
skill
Key
search-thoreinstein
Source
github.com/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian