Custom language in vault

[alanzhag]

Hi!
If I want to make it so every ingested note (independente from language -ie. english, spanish-) should generate an output in a preferred language, what would be the best way to archive that at vault level?
I code in english but I find it more useful for me if for example the /wiki-update could generate spanish documentation in my vault.

Thanks!

[Ar9av]

Good use case. Today the cleanest vault level way to do this is to put the preference in your vault’s AGENTS.md.

obsidian-wiki already treats $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/AGENTS.md as the owner-specific override layer , so that’s the right place to declare writing conventions like:

• generate wiki prose in Spanish
• keep code, commands, API names, filenames, and literal quotes in the original language
• avoid creating duplicate English/Spanish pages unless explicitly requested

Example:

# Vault conventions

- Preferred output language for all generated wiki prose: Spanish.
- Preserve code, commands, API names, package names, file paths, and log text in their original language.
- Summaries, explanations, and synthesis should be written in Spanish unless the source must remain verbatim.

That means /wiki-update can read an English codebase but still write the resulting vault documentation in Spanish.

There isn’t a first-class config key for this yet (for example OBSIDIAN_OUTPUT_LANGUAGE=es), so AGENTS.md is the best extension point today. If this keeps coming up, adding a dedicated env var would be a
reasonable enhancement.

[alanzhag]

Outstanding, thank you!