Hooking an AI agent to a local Obsidian vault on a Mac mini: what worked and what didn't
techlatest_net · reddit · 2026-10-23
A developer experimented with giving an AI agent direct access to a local knowledge base instead of keeping everything in chat history: he connected Hermes Agent to a local Obsidian vault on a Mac mini and tested four tasks — reading existing notes, creating new Markdown notes, searching the vault, and linking related notes.
The setup raises open questions around permissions, accidental edits, and whether agent-created links add real value or just noise. He documented the full setup and its limitations, and is soliciting community practices on read-only vs. write access and preventing duplicate or low-quality notes.
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