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CLAUDE + OBSIDIAN + LOOP ENGINEERING = AN AGENT THAT LIVES INSIDE YOUR NOTES Karpathy's second brain runs on something close to this two years of growth almost none of it typed by him • the loop, four steps on repeat > read - Claude Opus 5 opens the...

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PSYCHO CREATED A GOD-MODE SECOND BRAIN ON FABLE 5 THAT FILLS ITS OWN KNOWLEDGE GAPS WHILE YOU SLEEP. KARPATHY'S FILE STRUCTURE MAKES IT POSSIBLE. Everyone wires Claude into Obsidian, posts the graph, and stops. this guy added a third system and it quietly changes the whole game: The full build is in the article below: vault structure, the Claude wiring, the exact prompts, the skills. > Obsidian as the knowledge base, but any notes app works as long as Claude Code can see the files > Karpathy's LLM Wiki doc as the skeleton, so the vault is organized the way a model actually reads, not the way humans decorate folders > a self-learning skill on a weekly loop: scans the entire brain, finds the gaps, then researches YouTube and Google by itself to fill them Read the third one again, actually your notes only ever contain what you happened to write down, and the gap-finder breaks that ceiling: the brain starts knowing things you never told it. Most second brains know what you told them. a real one notices what you didn't. that's the difference between note-taking and compounding. one sits there. the other gets smarter every week whether you showed up or not. P.S. send the article straight to your Claude, tell it to interview you, and the brain starts filling itself tonight.

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Simplifying AI

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KIMI K3 + OBSIDIAN + LOOP ENGINEERING = A VAULT THAT RUNS ITSELF the core idea: the vault is the loop's state, not the chat window everything Kimi K3 knows lives in a .md file the loop: > capture - a thought lands in 00-inbox > context - K3 pulls links, tags, and neighbouring notes > draft - edits happen inside a git worktree, never the live vault > review - a critic agent checks the diff before anything ships > commit - appended to the vault, nothing gets rewritten the key insight: frontmatter fields like supports, contradicts, and supersedes are graph edges, not metadata - the note format is the write API start with a plain loop, it runs about 2-4x the cost of one direct call > only move to a full graph once state has to outlive the session, several agents need to coordinate, or you have to explain what changed - that jump can run 10-50x one review assistant climbed from 55% to 72% to 84% just by moving through these shapes in order
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KIMI K3 + OBSIDIAN + LOOP ENGINEERING = A VAULT THAT RUNS ITSELF the core idea: the vault is the loop's state, not the chat window everything Kimi K3 knows lives in a .md file the loop: > capture - a thought lands in 00-inbox > context - K3 pulls links, tags, and neighbouring notes > draft - edits happen inside a git worktree, never the live vault > review - a critic agent checks the diff before anything ships > commit - appended to the vault, nothing gets rewritten the key insight: frontmatter fields like supports, contradicts, and supersedes are graph edges, not metadata - the note format is the write API start with a plain loop, it runs about 2-4x the cost of one direct call > only move to a full graph once state has to outlive the session, several agents need to coordinate, or you have to explain what changed - that jump can run 10-50x one review assistant climbed from 55% to 72% to 84% just by moving through these shapes in order

Mr. Buzzoni

10,680 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

YOUR AI IS FORGETTING EVERYTHING YOU TAUGHT IT YESTERDAY. That is why most outputs still feel generic. The people getting real leverage in 2026 fixed this with one setup: Obsidian + Claude Code. Obsidian stores your thinking. Claude Code reads the patterns. Your notes become permanent context the agent can access anytime: Daily thoughts. Projects. Ideas. Contradictions. Questions you keep returning to. Then the real unlock: Custom slash commands. `/context` loads your recent thinking instantly. `/emerge` finds hidden ideas across your notes. `/challenge` tests your beliefs against your past writing. `/trace` maps how your thinking evolved over time. One critical rule: The AI never writes to the vault. You write. The agent reads. That is what keeps the system valuable. At first it feels like note-taking. Eventually it feels like a second brain.
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YOUR AI IS FORGETTING EVERYTHING YOU TAUGHT IT YESTERDAY. That is why most outputs still feel generic. The people getting real leverage in 2026 fixed this with one setup: Obsidian + Claude Code. Obsidian stores your thinking. Claude Code reads the patterns. Your notes become permanent context the agent can access anytime: Daily thoughts. Projects. Ideas. Contradictions. Questions you keep returning to. Then the real unlock: Custom slash commands. `/context` loads your recent thinking instantly. `/emerge` finds hidden ideas across your notes. `/challenge` tests your beliefs against your past writing. `/trace` maps how your thinking evolved over time. One critical rule: The AI never writes to the vault. You write. The agent reads. That is what keeps the system valuable. At first it feels like note-taking. Eventually it feels like a second brain.

Dami-Defi

41,299 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

STOP TREATING YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT AS AI MEMORY. WITHOUT ONE ROUTING FILE, CLAUDE IS BURNING TOKENS ON NOISE YOU FORGOT YOU SAVED. a folder full of markdown does not make Claude smart. what makes it smart is what your agent can find without rereading the whole vault. storage: write → tag → graph → agent scans everything the model touches the entire vault, hallucinates half of it, forgets by the next session. memory: write → index → route → agent opens two files the model reads the index first, follows one path, answers with a link back to the note. i have rebuilt my Obsidian vault three times this year. the first two collapsed inside a month because Claude kept guessing which folder to open. the third one holds because the first thing i ship now is the routing file. Markdown, links, and the graph view are not what changed. what changed was a one-line description per folder, written for the agent, kept current, loaded before any retrieval call. if your agent still starts every session by scanning your whole vault, you are running storage. write the routing file today.
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STOP TREATING YOUR OBSIDIAN VAULT AS AI MEMORY. WITHOUT ONE ROUTING FILE, CLAUDE IS BURNING TOKENS ON NOISE YOU FORGOT YOU SAVED. a folder full of markdown does not make Claude smart. what makes it smart is what your agent can find without rereading the whole vault. storage: write → tag → graph → agent scans everything the model touches the entire vault, hallucinates half of it, forgets by the next session. memory: write → index → route → agent opens two files the model reads the index first, follows one path, answers with a link back to the note. i have rebuilt my Obsidian vault three times this year. the first two collapsed inside a month because Claude kept guessing which folder to open. the third one holds because the first thing i ship now is the routing file. Markdown, links, and the graph view are not what changed. what changed was a one-line description per folder, written for the agent, kept current, loaded before any retrieval call. if your agent still starts every session by scanning your whole vault, you are running storage. write the routing file today.

kocer

17,240 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

THIS GUY TURNED ONE OBSIDIAN VAULT INTO A SHARED BRAIN FOR 5 CLAUDE AGENTS BUILT TO HANDLE 80% OF A SOLO DEVELOPER’S WORK. 00:03 he zooms out and hundreds of connected notes appear on screen. it is the perfect visual for Claude working from one shared project memory instead of starting from zero every session. most developers give Claude 1 file and 1 prompt. this setup gives it the architecture, coding rules, tests, client briefs, and previous decisions before it writes anything. obsidian becomes the memory layer, storing everything in markdown files Claude can read alongside the codebase. every agent works from the same context instead of repeating the same questions. then 5 specialists split the job. one researches, one plans, one codes, one reviews, and one deploys while the developer only controls the important decisions. one vault, 5 agents, 2 model tiers, and a $50 to $150 monthly stack can turn Claude from a chatbot into a small development team.
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THIS GUY TURNED ONE OBSIDIAN VAULT INTO A SHARED BRAIN FOR 5 CLAUDE AGENTS BUILT TO HANDLE 80% OF A SOLO DEVELOPER’S WORK. 00:03 he zooms out and hundreds of connected notes appear on screen. it is the perfect visual for Claude working from one shared project memory instead of starting from zero every session. most developers give Claude 1 file and 1 prompt. this setup gives it the architecture, coding rules, tests, client briefs, and previous decisions before it writes anything. obsidian becomes the memory layer, storing everything in markdown files Claude can read alongside the codebase. every agent works from the same context instead of repeating the same questions. then 5 specialists split the job. one researches, one plans, one codes, one reviews, and one deploys while the developer only controls the important decisions. one vault, 5 agents, 2 model tiers, and a $50 to $150 monthly stack can turn Claude from a chatbot into a small development team.

Gipp 🦅

10,799 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

Obsidian plus Hermes Agent equals a system that thinks, remembers, and runs your life. Works while you sleep. Vault holds the knowledge. Hermes reads it. Claude reasons across it. Outputs land back in the vault as new notes. Every morning brief grounded in your actual projects. Every inbox processed automatically. Every week synthesized without effort. The personal operating system that compounds forever. Read this and Bookmark it now.
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Obsidian plus Hermes Agent equals a system that thinks, remembers, and runs your life. Works while you sleep. Vault holds the knowledge. Hermes reads it. Claude reasons across it. Outputs land back in the vault as new notes. Every morning brief grounded in your actual projects. Every inbox processed automatically. Every week synthesized without effort. The personal operating system that compounds forever. Read this and Bookmark it now.

CyrilXBT

43,403 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

A developer pointed Claude Code at a 6,200-note Obsidian vault and let it run overnight. The vault was 4 years of markdown. Meeting notes, half-ideas, book highlights. Dead weight. He hadn't opened 90% of it since 2022. He typed one line into the terminal. "Read everything. Find what I forgot." Then he went to bed. By 7 AM, Claude Code had touched all 6,200 files. It wrote 3 new notes. The first mapped 14 ideas scattered across 3 years into one product. He'd never seen they connected. The second listed 22 promises he'd made in old meeting notes and never kept. The third was a full essay. Stitched from 40 fragments. In his own phrasing. He hadn't written a note in 8 months. The vault had been writing itself the whole time. He just couldn't read his own handwriting at scale. Now Claude Code opens the vault every morning at 6:00. It links new notes to old ones. It flags contradictions. It drafts. 2 tools. 1 folder of plain text. No app, no cloud, no subscription. He stopped taking notes to remember them. He takes them now to be read back.
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A developer pointed Claude Code at a 6,200-note Obsidian vault and let it run overnight. The vault was 4 years of markdown. Meeting notes, half-ideas, book highlights. Dead weight. He hadn't opened 90% of it since 2022. He typed one line into the terminal. "Read everything. Find what I forgot." Then he went to bed. By 7 AM, Claude Code had touched all 6,200 files. It wrote 3 new notes. The first mapped 14 ideas scattered across 3 years into one product. He'd never seen they connected. The second listed 22 promises he'd made in old meeting notes and never kept. The third was a full essay. Stitched from 40 fragments. In his own phrasing. He hadn't written a note in 8 months. The vault had been writing itself the whole time. He just couldn't read his own handwriting at scale. Now Claude Code opens the vault every morning at 6:00. It links new notes to old ones. It flags contradictions. It drafts. 2 tools. 1 folder of plain text. No app, no cloud, no subscription. He stopped taking notes to remember them. He takes them now to be read back.

Spike 1%

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KARPATHY WROTE THIS DOCUMENT TO TURN OBSIDIAN INTO A SECOND BRAIN THAT RUNS ITSELF ON CLAUDE I was ready to abandon mine cross-referencing everything by hand was eating my week then I found this document and the whole approach flipped Karpathy's method turns the model into a full-time maintainer for your vault: • what the agent actually does > reads every new source and files it into a structured wiki > writes the links for you, so the vault compounds while you sleep > runs checks that surface contradictions between your own notes > keeps Obsidian as the visual layer while Claude works the backend • what changed for me > I feed it raw documents and stop thinking about structure > nothing gets manually filed, nothing gets lost > the friction is gone two years of notes stop being a graveyard and start being an asset you can query that's the difference between reading about your field and being the person in the room who already knows the answer here is the document from Karpathy explaining the architecture 👇
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KARPATHY WROTE THIS DOCUMENT TO TURN OBSIDIAN INTO A SECOND BRAIN THAT RUNS ITSELF ON CLAUDE I was ready to abandon mine cross-referencing everything by hand was eating my week then I found this document and the whole approach flipped Karpathy's method turns the model into a full-time maintainer for your vault: • what the agent actually does > reads every new source and files it into a structured wiki > writes the links for you, so the vault compounds while you sleep > runs checks that surface contradictions between your own notes > keeps Obsidian as the visual layer while Claude works the backend • what changed for me > I feed it raw documents and stop thinking about structure > nothing gets manually filed, nothing gets lost > the friction is gone two years of notes stop being a graveyard and start being an asset you can query that's the difference between reading about your field and being the person in the room who already knows the answer here is the document from Karpathy explaining the architecture 👇

Annatar.md

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