Use Case
Obsidian Tasks is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Set up and manage an Obsidian task board with Kanban + Dataview. Creates a Tasks/Board.md pipeline (Backlog/Todo/In Progress/Review/Done), per-task notes with YAML frontmatter (status/priority/category/due), and dashboards via Dataview queries. Use for task tracking, moving cards between columns, keeping board + frontmatter in sync, and linking tasks to supporting notes/research. This guide walks you through installing Obsidian Tasks, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Obsidian Tasks: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasks
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger Obsidian Tasks
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Obsidian Tasks with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Obsidian Tasks
Help me get started with Obsidian Tasks
What can Obsidian Tasks do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using Obsidian Tasks
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasksOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install obsidian-tasksβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/obsidian-tasks/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.