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Vault CMS

For the complete documentation index, see llms.txt. The full corpus is available at llms-full.txt. This page is also available as Markdown by appending .md to the URL.

BRAT

BRAT (Beta Reviewer’s Auto-update Tool) installs and manages beta versions of Obsidian plugins and themes directly from GitHub repositories.

Vault CMS uses BRAT for a small number of plugins that cannot come from the official Obsidian community directory:

  • The Vault CMS plugin itself, which is still in beta.
  • The theme settings plugins, Astro Modular Settings and Axis Settings, which ship with their respective themes rather than standing alone.
  • The Data Files Editor fork, which is ahead of the version currently in the community directory.

Every other companion plugin is in the official directory and installs and updates through the standard Community Plugins browser.

Features

Section titled “Features”
  • Install beta plugins by providing a GitHub repository path.
  • Auto-update beta plugins and themes at startup.
  • Version freezing to pin a plugin to a specific release.
  • GitHub token support for private repositories and higher API rate limits.

Commands

Section titled “Commands”
  • Add a beta plugin for testing: Install a plugin from a GitHub repository.
  • Check for updates to all beta plugins and update: Update all tracked plugins.
  • Choose a single plugin version to update: Update one specific plugin.
  • Restart a plugin: Reload a plugin without toggling it off and on.
  • Enable/disable a plugin: Quick toggle for any installed plugin.
  • Open GitHub repository for a plugin: Open the repo in your browser.