2026-05-13 The Future of Obsidian Plugins
The Obsidian team just launched Obsidian Community at community.obsidian.md; a new directory and developer platform for plugins and themes. I've been waiting for this for years. It reshapes plugin discovery and developer compliance, and it frees up serious time for the Obsidian team itself.
Canonical version: 2026-05-13 The Future of Obsidian Plugins.
The Obsidian team just launched Obsidian Community at community.obsidian.md; a new directory and developer platform for plugins and themes. I've been waiting for this for years. It reshapes plugin discovery and developer compliance, and it frees up serious time for the Obsidian team itself.
What's New for Users
If you've ever installed an Obsidian plugin and wondered "is this still maintained?" or "should I really trust this?", you'll like what the new community site offers.
Each plugin now has a safety scorecard. Maintenance signals, update frequency, risk indicators; all visible at a glance. Paid plugins and official plugins are clearly labeled. Categories and filters replace the old scroll-through-everything experience.
Capability disclosures are coming soon. Those will show exactly what permissions a plugin requests; useful signal before you click install. Verified author badges are on the roadmap too.
Automated Compliance and Safety
Here's the part I find most interesting. Every plugin version is now automatically scanned for security vulnerabilities and code quality issues. Malware detection runs on all submissions. No human bottleneck.
For developers like me, this means immediate feedback on submission. The platform tells you exactly what's wrong, you fix it, you resubmit. No more waiting weeks for a human reviewer to even look at your code.
One thing to note is that it's certainly not perfect yet. Scores are heavily based on compliance with Obsidian linting rules. Those make a ton of sense, but they don't really mean that the plugins are bad per se. Code quality doesn't need to be perfect for a plugin to do something useful. Multiple plugins I've created in recent months were built using AI and don't respect all the Obsidian rules, but they're functional and serve a real purpose.
Keep that in mind while you browse the list of plugins and the associated scores; they don't tell the whole story. What's more important is that you look at the security audits. Avoid plugins that contain known vulnerabilities or malicious code.
The Obsidian Team Is No Longer a Bottleneck
The Obsidian team is small. They ship a lot. But manually reviewing every plugin submission was a HUGE drain on their time; time better spent elsewhere. And they simply couldn't keep up with all the new plugins being proposed.
The new automated system fixes that. Now the Obsidian team can focus on what actually matters: auditing popular and high-risk plugins where human judgment is irreplaceable, improving the core product, and fixing important issues. Machines handle the mechanical checks. Humans handle the calls that need expertise.
Win-Win-Win situation. Better for the community, better for the Obsidian team and better for plugin developers.
What This Means for Me
I have 15+ Obsidian plugins on GitHub. Many of those being used daily by many users, but also many that were waiting for review and thus not available in the official list of community plugins (those had to be installed manually). Partly because of the old backlog, partly because I did have time to enter the slow review cycle.
That changes now. I can submit each plugin, get instant feedback on what needs fixing, fix it, and get them listed. My profile is already live: dsebastien on Obsidian Community.
Getting my plugins into the official directory matters for discoverability. People looking for the functionality I've built will find them through the standard search path, see the safety scorecards, and know who's behind the work.
Time to roll up my sleeves and get those plugins listed!
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