obsidian-plugin-development
A Claude Code plugin providing the obsidian-plugin-creator skill: scaffold, build, and debug Obsidian plugins end-to-end through the obsidian-cli deploy + debug loop.
What's inside
skills/obsidian-plugin-creator/SKILL.md — the skill itself. 12 sections covering prerequisites, scaffolding, the build→copy→reload deploy loop, command/event registration, settings UI patterns, vault I/O, requestUrl networking, safeStorage secrets, pure-core testing with adapters, debugging via obsidian dev:debug on + dev:console + eval, and a gotchas preflight.skills/obsidian-plugin-creator/references/scaffold/ — working manifest.json, package.json, tsconfig.json, esbuild.config.mjs, vitest.config.ts, main.ts, settings.ts, .gitignore templates.skills/obsidian-plugin-creator/references/ — runbook.md (source narrative), settings-coupled-controls.ts, adapter-pattern.ts.docs/superpowers/runbooks/2026-04-20-obsidian-plugin-development.md — the original runbook this skill was distilled from.
Install (Claude Code marketplace)
/plugin marketplace add earchibald/obsidian-plugin-development
/plugin install obsidian-plugin-creator@obsidian-plugin-development
Use
Invoke the skill when starting any Obsidian plugin work:
"Scaffold an Obsidian plugin that …"
"My plugin's editor-change handler isn't firing."
"How do I reload my plugin without restarting Obsidian?"
The skill triggers automatically on requests that touch .obsidian/plugins/<id>/, manifest.json, or main.js.
License
MIT.
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