obsidian-conversation-backup

⚠Review·Scanned 2/18/2026

This skill automatically backs up Clawdbot conversations to an Obsidian vault with hourly incremental snapshots. It runs local shell scripts (./install.sh, scripts/monitor_and_save.sh) and reads BOT_TOKEN/CHAT_ID to post warnings via https://api.telegram.org/bot${BOT_TOKEN}/sendMessage.

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Obsidian Conversation Backup for Clawdbot

🦞 Automatic conversation backup system with beautiful chat-style Obsidian formatting.

Features

  • ⚡ Zero token cost - Pure shell scripting, no LLM calls
  • 💾 Incremental backups - Hourly snapshots of new messages only
  • 💬 Chat formatting - Colored Obsidian callouts with emojis and timestamps
  • 📊 Token monitoring - Telegram warnings at 800k/900k tokens
  • 📅 Hourly breakdowns - Organize conversations by clock hour
  • 🎯 Smart filtering - Skips empty messages and system notifications

Quick Start

# Install the skill
clawdbot skills install YOUR-USERNAME/clawdbot-obsidian-backup

# Run installer
cd ~/.clawdbot/skills/obsidian-conversation-backup
./install.sh

# Add to crontab for automatic hourly backups
crontab -e
# Add: 0 * * * * /path/to/scripts/monitor_and_save.sh

What It Does

Protects your Clawdbot conversations from data loss when running /new by automatically backing up to Obsidian vault with beautiful formatting.

In Obsidian, conversations look like:

🐉 User messages in blue callouts
🦞 Zoidbot messages in green callouts

Documentation

See SKILL.md for complete documentation, configuration options, and advanced usage.

Requirements

  • Clawdbot
  • Obsidian vault
  • jq (JSON parser)
  • cron (for automatic backups)

License

MIT License - See LICENSE file

Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome!