obsidian-wiki

A knowledge mgmt system inspired by gist published by Andrej Karpathy about maintaining a personal knowledge base with LLMs : the "LLM Wiki" pattern.

Instead of asking an LLM the same questions over over (or doing RAG every time), you compile knowledge once into interconnected markdown files and keep them current. In this case Obsidian is the viewer and the LLM is the maintainer.

We took that and built a framework around it. The whole thing is a set of markdown skill files that any AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, whatever you use) can read and execute. You point it at your Obsidian vault and tell it what to do.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki.git
cd obsidian-wiki
bash setup.sh

setup.sh asks for your vault path, writes the config to ~/.obsidian-wiki/config, symlinks skills into all your agents, and installs wiki-update globally so you can use it from any project.

OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH is just any directory where you want your wiki documents to live. It can be a new empty folder or an existing Obsidian vault. Obsidian will read from it directly.

Open the project in your agent and say "set up my wiki". That's it.

Agent Compatibility

This framework works with any AI coding agent that can read files. The setup.sh script automatically configures skill discovery for each one: