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Obsidian Canvas Creator

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axtonliu·vlatest·productivity·MIT

This skill generates visually appealing canvases within Obsidian notes, streamlining workflow and enhancing note organization for creative projects.

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  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add axtonliu/axton-obsidian-visual-skills --skill obsidian-canvas-creator -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

axtonliu

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

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    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned axtonliu/axton-obsidian-visual-skills at 1265976d97.

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Commit
1265976d97
Manifest
obsidian-canvas-creator/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 1,167 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill allows AI agents to create Obsidian Canvas files. It can generate new canvases with specified dimensions and initial node arrangements, streamlining the visual organization of notes within an Obsidian vault. The agent can also populate these canvases with existing notes or create new ones directly on the canvas.

When to use it

  • Project Planning: Generate a canvas to visually map out tasks, dependencies, and milestones for a project.
  • Knowledge Management: Create a visual representation of interconnected concepts within a complex topic.
  • Brainstorming Sessions: Quickly set up a canvas with initial nodes to facilitate brainstorming and idea generation.
  • Note Organization: Visually restructure and connect existing notes in an Obsidian vault.

Key capabilities

  • Canvas creation with specified dimensions
  • Node placement on the canvas
  • Integration with existing Obsidian notes
  • Creation of new notes directly on the canvas

Example prompts

  • "Create a 1920x1080 Obsidian Canvas named 'Project Alpha' and add nodes for 'Research', 'Design', and 'Development'."
  • "Generate an Obsidian Canvas visualizing my Zettelkasten system, linking existing notes about 'Quantum Physics'."
  • “Make a new canvas called ‘Book Ideas’ with space for 5 initial nodes.”

Tips & gotchas

  • Requires access to an active Obsidian vault. The agent needs appropriate permissions within the vault to create and modify files.