A new user feature requests!

[joethei]

That warning is there because it’s technically possible, but:

• most community plugins are open source, and anyone with knowledge of programming can audit them(you, or someone you trust)
• Plugins are reviewed by the Obsidian developers, before they are accepted into the list.
• This is not an Obsidian exclusive problem, most other software that allows extensions does not warn in the same manner as Obsidian(VS Code for example).

Just be sure to have good backups of your vault, in case a plugin malfunctions.

You can read the technical stuff here:

Security of the plugins

I’d just like to make a note here that there is ABSOLUTELY NO SECURE WAY to run plugins without severely crippling the plugin API. Electron by nature is insecure when 3rd party code is involved, and that we won’t even attempt to wrestle that beast. The only advice we can give is “only run code you absolutely trust and have self-audited to be secure for your use case”. I’d like to add that even VSCode, a hugely popular IDE made by Microsoft, doesn’t have what you’re requesting.

You will have a button to browse all community plugins once you disable safe mode.