When should I use this skill?

Use it whenever you want to create a new clipping template, understand the available variables, or change how clipped content is formatted.

What kind of tool is this?

It is a skill: instructions an AI agent loads to guide its work on Obsidian Web Clipper templates.

Obsidian Web Clipper Template Creator

SkillDocs & knowledge

This is a skill for working with the Obsidian Web Clipper. It guides an AI agent through creating clipping templates, so saved web pages end up as neatly formatted Obsidian notes instead of raw captures.

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Then ask your AI: use the Obsidian Web Clipper Template Creator skill

Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

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Have access to an AI agent that supports loading skills.

Obsidian Web Clipper Template CreatorStart free

What your AI can do with it

Create a new clipping template for the Obsidian Web Clipper
Explain which template variables are available
Format how clipped content appears in resulting notes

Getting started

Have access to an AI agent that supports loading skills.
Add the obsidian-clipper-template-creator skill to the agent's available skills.
Ask the agent to help create a clipping template, list template variables, or adjust formatting for clipped content.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by davila7/claude-code-templates in cli-tool/components/skills/productivity/obsidian-clipper-template-creator/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill helps you create importable JSON templates for the Obsidian Web Clipper.

Workflow

Identify User Intent: specific site (YouTube), specific type (Recipe), or general clipping?
Check Existing Bases: The user likely has a "Base" schema defined in Templates/Bases/.
- Action: Read Templates/Bases/*.base to find a matching category (e.g., Recipes.base).
- Action: Use the properties defined in the Base to structure the Clipper template properties.
- See references/bases-workflow.md for details.
Fetch & Analyze Reference URL: Validate variables against a real page.
- Action: Ask the user for a sample URL of the content they want to clip (if not provided).
- Action: Use WebFetch to retrieve the page HTML.
- Action: Analyze the HTML for Schema.org JSON, Meta tags, and CSS selectors.
- See references/analysis-workflow.md for analysis techniques.
Draft the JSON: Create a valid JSON object following the schema.
- See references/json-schema.md.
Verify Variables: Ensure the chosen variables (Preset, Schema, Selector) exist in your analysis.
- See references/variables.md.

Output Format

ALWAYS output the final result as a JSON code block that the user can copy and import.

{
  "schemaVersion": "0.1.0",
  "name": "My Template",
  ...
}

Resources

references/variables.md - Available data variables.
references/filters.md - Formatting filters.
references/json-schema.md - JSON structure documentation.
references/bases-workflow.md - How to map Bases to Templates.
references/analysis-workflow.md - How to validate page data.

Official Documentation

Examples

See assets/ for JSON examples.

Signals

GitHub stars: 32k
Forks: 4k
Last commit: Oct 2026

Questions

When should I use this skill?: Use it whenever you want to create a new clipping template, understand the available variables, or change how clipped content is formatted.
What kind of tool is this?: It is a skill: instructions an AI agent loads to guide its work on Obsidian Web Clipper templates.

Advanced

Item type: skill
Key: obsidian-clipper-template-creator
Source: github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates

github.com/davila7/claude-code-templates