From e5bbbba7efac9436a1167ea56076221d4557dff9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=E2=98=99=E2=97=A6=20The=20Tablet=20=E2=9D=80=20GamerGirla?=
 =?UTF-8?q?ndCo=20=E2=97=A6=E2=9D=A7?= <i.am.the.tablet@proton.me>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:36:51 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add ability to `dc.require` the `obsidian` package

---
 src/api/local-api.tsx | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/api/local-api.tsx b/src/api/local-api.tsx
index fc886904b..6c39a7790 100644
--- a/src/api/local-api.tsx
+++ b/src/api/local-api.tsx
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { Expression } from "expression/expression";
 import { Card } from "./ui/views/cards";
 import { ListView } from "./ui/views/list";
 import { Modal, Modals, SubmittableModal, useModalContext } from "./ui/views/modal";
+import * as obsidian from "obsidian";
 
 /**
  * Local API provided to specific codeblocks when they are executing.
@@ -96,6 +97,9 @@ export class DatacoreLocalApi {
      * ```
      */
     public async require(path: string | Link): Promise<unknown> {
+        if (typeof path === "string" && path === "obsidian") {
+            return Result.success(obsidian);
+        }
         const result = await this.scriptCache.load(path, { dc: this });
         return result.orElseThrow();
     }