Investigation under the original ticket obsidiansystems/obelisk#768 has lead us to believe that the issue is related to Zeus, not obelisk, so I'm creating an issue here.
Error following the tutorial:
$ nix-env -f https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk/archive/master.tar.gz -iA command
installing 'obelisk-command-0.8.0.0'
nix-env: src/libstore/nar-info-disk-cache.cc:233: nix::NarInfoDiskCacheImpl::upsertNarInfo(const string&, const string&, std::shared_ptr<nix::ValidPathInfo>)::<lambda()>: Assertion `hashPart == storePathToHash(info->path)' failed.
[1] 2798858 abort (core dumped) nix-env -f https://github.com/obsidiansystems/obelisk/archive/master.tar.gz