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diogoneves/glide-obsidian

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TLDR

Markdown content pack for Obsidian vaults that gives an external AI agent (Codex or Claude Code) a structured home for goals, decisions, research, and recurring check-ins.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((glide-obsidian))
    Inputs
      Obsidian vault
      External agent runtime
      User goals
    Outputs
      Agent HQ folder
      Skill notes
      Daily check-ins
      Drift reviews
    Use Cases
      Personal AI coach
      Life-area autopilot
      Decision tracking
      Note triage from photos
    Tech Stack
      Markdown
      Obsidian

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Install Agent HQ inside an Obsidian vault to give an AI agent structured context

USE CASE 2

Run daily check-ins and drift reviews against your goals and life areas

USE CASE 3

Convert a photo of a notebook page into a linked Obsidian writing entry

USE CASE 4

Set approval boundaries for parts of life you want on autopilot

Tech stack

MarkdownObsidian

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Glide is content only, so you must bring your own agent runtime such as OpenAI Codex or Claude Code to actually read the files and act.

In plain English

Glide for Obsidian is a set of Markdown files and instructions that you install inside your Obsidian vault. Obsidian is a popular note-taking app that stores notes as plain text files on your computer. The README describes Glide as a self-evolving personal coach and pilot that gives an AI agent a structured home inside your vault for your goals, areas of life, decisions, open questions, research, and recurring check-ins. Glide does not run any software on its own. It is content, not code. The author explains that an external agent runtime such as OpenAI Codex or Anthropic Claude Code is what actually reads the files and takes actions. Glide just provides good defaults: a folder called Agent HQ inside your vault, a list of skills and checklists with names prefixed by glide-, starter automations for things like daily check-ins and drift review, and adapter notes for different agent harnesses. The author built it because they wanted help managing context for the parts of life they care about, family, content, projects, while putting other parts like finance and admin on more of an autopilot with clear approval boundaries. A small example given is taking a messy Obsidian note, including a photo of a notebook, and asking the agent to turn it into a draft writing entry linked to existing notes. The README is clear about privacy: Glide itself does not collect telemetry, run servers, or send vault data anywhere. Whatever the connected AI service does is up to the user. Installation is described as a conservative agent-led flow that inspects the vault, asks which harness and which default areas to include, and only copies files after explicit confirmation.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through the agent-led install flow that inspects my Obsidian vault before copying files
Prompt 2
Show me what goes into the Agent HQ folder and what the glide- prefix files are for
Prompt 3
Help me wire glide-obsidian to Claude Code as the agent runtime
Prompt 4
Explain the daily check-in and drift review automations and how to schedule them
Prompt 5
Tell me which adapter notes exist and which agent harnesses are supported
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