Obsidian launches Community hub with automated plugin reviews and enhanced safety

Obsidian has launched Obsidian Community, a** new public directory and developer dashboard for plugins and themes**. The site adds improved browsing, search, filtering, and sorting, helping users find extensions by categories such as Integrations, Bases, and Charts. Each project page now includes screenshots, project details, and a safety scorecard based on automated checks, while new labels identify paid plugins and official integrations.

For developers, the new dashboard makes it easier to submit, manage, and track plugin and theme review status. Existing projects have been migrated from GitHub, and authors can claim them by connecting their accounts. Obsidian is also introducing automated reviews for every plugin and theme version, checking policy compliance, code quality, and known vulnerabilities. Manual reviews will continue for popular or flagged extensions, while older projects that fail the new checks have temporary exceptions but may eventually be removed from the official directory.

The security push also comes after a report described a campaign abusing Obsidian to target finance and crypto professionals with PHANTOMPULSE RAT. Obsidian’s CEO said a major plugin security update was coming and argued that the reported attack relied on social engineering, requiring users to reject multiple safety warnings, with no confirmed affected users known to him at the time. The company plans to expand safety scorecards with privacy and disclosure labels, including information about plugin access to the network, file system, clipboard, and other capabilities, while also adding better plugin controls and private distribution tools for teams.