read-get

Call the obsidian-router get_file MCP tool with arguments parsed from $ARGUMENTS.

Arguments

Required:

• path — file path relative to vault root (e.g. Sessions/2026-05-02.md).

Optional:

• vault — vault name. If omitted, the router uses its default vault.

Argument parsing from $ARGUMENTS

• bare path → path
• <vault>/<path> if first segment matches a known vault name → split into vault + path
• vault=X path=Y (key=value)
• if user just says "the daily note" or similar without a clear path, ask for the path

If path is missing, refuse to call the tool and ask the user for it.

Output format

After fetching, render the markdown content. If the file has frontmatter, format it as a YAML code block at the top followed by the body. Don't truncate unless the file is huge (>2000 lines), in which case show the first 200 lines and offer to fetch more on request.

contentSha256 (for conditional writes)

The result also carries contentSha256 — a fingerprint of the file's current content. If you intend to modify the file after reading it, keep this value: pass it back as ifMatch on the subsequent write_file / patch_file / merge_frontmatter / move_file / delete_file so the change is refused if the file was modified in between. This is how you avoid overwriting a concurrent edit. Don't surface the hash to the user unless asked — it's plumbing.