Obsidian Publish

Needs Work

Agent Native Score

Obsidian Publish is a service for publishing personal knowledge bases and notes from the Obsidian note-taking app to the web. It provides secure, customizable hosting for digital gardens and documentation.

Categories: Productivity · Publishing · Knowledge Management

#53 of 55 in Productivity · #4 of 4 in Publishing · #19 of 20 in Knowledge Management

Checklist Breakdown

8 of 33 checks passed. 14 unscored.

Discovery 50%

Can an agent find and understand this tool without a web search?

✗ Published OpenAPI/Swagger spec

✗ Has llms.txt or llms-full.txt

✗ Has an MCP server (official or well-maintained)

✗ MCP server listed in a public registry

✓ API reference docs are publicly accessible

✓ Docs include runnable code examples

✓ Has a public changelog or release notes

✓ Has a public status page

Auth & Onboarding 17%

Can an agent create an account and get credentials without human intervention?

✗ Signup does not require CAPTCHA

✗ Signup does not require phone verification

✗ Supports API key auth (not only OAuth)

✗ API key obtainable without manual approval

✗ No mandatory billing info to start

✓ Can sign up without creating an organization

Pricing 60%

Can an agent operate autonomously without upfront payment or contracts?

✗ Has a free tier

✓ Usage-based pricing available

✓ No minimum contract or commitment

✓ Pricing page is public (no 'contact sales')

✗ Free tier sufficient for testing (not just a trial)

Agent Tooling Not yet scored

How well does the API work for non-human consumers?

— SDK available in 2+ languages

— Structured error responses (JSON with error codes)

— Idempotency support on write endpoints

— Pagination on list endpoints

— Webhook/event support

— Sandbox or test mode available

— Rate limit headers in responses

— Consistent REST resource naming

Reliability Not yet scored

Does the tool fail gracefully when an agent makes a mistake?

— Meaningful error messages (not just 500)

— 429 responses include Retry-After header

— Documented uptime SLA (99.9%+)

— Graceful degradation under rate limits

— Request IDs in responses for debugging

— API versioning supported

Reviewer Notes

Obsidian Publish is a publishing platform tightly integrated with the Obsidian desktop app, not a standalone API service. There is no public API, MCP server, or OpenAPI spec, making programmatic discovery and interaction extremely difficult. Account creation requires the Obsidian app and manual setup; agents cannot sign up independently. The service is primarily for end-users publishing static content, not for agent automation workflows.

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