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obsidian-bases

Create and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries. Use when working with .base files, creating database-like views of notes, or when the user mentions Bases, table views, card views, filters, or formulas in Obsidian.

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Quality

88%

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

77%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This is a strong, highly actionable skill with excellent concrete examples and good workflow structure including validation steps. Its main weakness is length—several reference tables and the three complete examples make it quite long, and some of this content could be offloaded to reference files for better progressive disclosure. The troubleshooting section with WRONG/CORRECT pairs is particularly well done.

Suggestions

Move the file properties reference table, summary formulas table, and filter operators table into a separate reference file (e.g., references/PROPERTIES_REFERENCE.md) to reduce the main file's token footprint.

Consider consolidating the three complete examples into one comprehensive example in SKILL.md and moving the others to a references/EXAMPLES.md file.

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Conciseness

The skill is fairly comprehensive but includes some redundancy—the filter operators table, file properties reference, and summary formulas table are quite lengthy. The three complete examples are valuable but collectively add significant length. Some sections like the view type examples (cards, list, map) are thin and could be condensed. However, it largely avoids explaining things Claude already knows.

2 / 3

Actionability

The skill provides fully executable YAML examples throughout, including complete base files ready to copy-paste. The schema, filter syntax, formula syntax, and complete examples (Task Tracker, Reading List, Daily Notes) are all concrete and directly usable. Troubleshooting includes specific WRONG/CORRECT pairs.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The workflow section at the top provides a clear 6-step sequence including validation (step 5 with specific checks) and testing (step 6 with error recovery guidance). It explicitly calls out common validation issues and includes a feedback loop for YAML errors. The troubleshooting section reinforces this with concrete error patterns and fixes.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The skill references a FUNCTIONS_REFERENCE.md file for the complete functions reference, which is good progressive disclosure. However, the main file is quite long (~350+ lines) with extensive reference tables (file properties, summary formulas, filter operators) that could be split into separate reference files. The external Obsidian documentation links are helpful but the bundle has no actual supporting files provided to verify the reference path.

2 / 3

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Description

100%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

This is an excellent skill description that follows best practices closely. It uses third person voice, lists specific capabilities, includes a comprehensive 'Use when...' clause with multiple natural trigger terms, and targets a clearly distinct niche (Obsidian Bases). It closely mirrors the good examples provided in the rubric.

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Specificity

Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Create and edit Obsidian Bases', '.base files', 'views, filters, formulas, and summaries'. These are concrete, actionable capabilities.

3 / 3

Completeness

Clearly answers both 'what' (create and edit Obsidian Bases with views, filters, formulas, and summaries) and 'when' (explicit 'Use when...' clause covering .base files, database-like views, Bases, table views, card views, filters, formulas in Obsidian).

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Excellent coverage of natural terms users would say: '.base files', 'Bases', 'table views', 'card views', 'filters', 'formulas', 'Obsidian', 'database-like views of notes'. These are terms users would naturally use when needing this skill.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Highly distinctive with a clear niche: Obsidian Bases and .base files are a very specific feature. The mention of the file extension, the product name 'Obsidian', and specific feature terms like 'card views' and 'table views' make it unlikely to conflict with other skills.

3 / 3

Total

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12

Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository
kepano/obsidian-skills
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