Steps to reproduce
- Open a terminal
- Run
obsidian help | head -10
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Yes.
Expected result
The command prints 10 lines then exit.
Actual result
The command prints 10 lines but doesn’t exit.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.3
Installer version: 1.10.6
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.2.0: Tue Nov 18 21:09:40 PST 2025; root:xnu-12377.61.12~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 25.2.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: Cupertino 3.2.5
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 46
Plugins enabled: 20
1: Style Settings v1.0.9
2: Vault Statistics v0.1.3
3: Paste URL into selection v1.11.4
4: Outliner v4.10.0
5: Quick Switcher++ v6.0.0
6: QuickAdd v2.11.0
7: Local Images Plus v0.16.4
8: AttachFlow v0.4.5
9: Paste image rename v1.6.1
10: Advanced URI v1.46.1
11: BRAT v2.0.2
12: Dataview v0.5.68
13: Image Captions v1.1.7
14: Image Converter v1.4.1
15: Kanban v2.0.51
16: Linter v1.31.0
17: File Cleaner Redux v1.13.4
18: Collapsible Code Blocks v1.0.6
19: Claudian v1.3.65
20: Terminal v3.21.0
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
Additional information
In kepano’s Obsidian CLI skill it says, “Run obsidian help to see all available commands.” Coding agents that read this will often run “obsidian help” and pipe its output to the head command to quickly verify it. Because the command hangs, the agents’ execution also stalls until it times out.