agents-memo

pi extension — personal knowledge vault with LLM-assisted ingestion, research, and retrieval. Built on Obsidian.

Install

Prerequisites: Obsidian 1.12.7+ with the CLI binary on your PATH.

pi install npm:agents-memo

Configure vault path in ~/.pi/agent/settings.json:

{
  "agentsMemo": {
    "vaultPath": "/absolute/path/to/vault"
  }
}

Or set it in .pi/settings.json for per-project overrides.

Register the vault with Obsidian:

obsidian register vault=/absolute/path/to/vault
obsidian list vaults

See _shared/setup.md for troubleshooting and Flatpak setup.

Configuration

All options live in the agentsMemo block of ~/.pi/agent/settings.json (global) or .pi/settings.json (per-project). Global values win per key; project values only fill keys the global file leaves unset.

Key	Type	Default	Description
vaultPath	string	auto-discovered wiki/ in CWD	Absolute path to the vault
bootstrapReadHot	"always" |"on-demand" |"never"	"on-demand"	When the hot cache is injected at session start
bootstrapReadIndex	"always" |"on-demand" |"never"	"on-demand"	When the index is injected at session start
autoCommit	boolean	true	Auto-commit vault git changes when the agent settles
autoPush	boolean	false	After auto-commit, push the vault repo to its remote. Never force-pushes or retries - a failed push (remote moved) leaves the commit local and shows a warning

autoPush requires the vault repo to have a remote and the current branch to have an upstream (run git push --set-upstream origin <branch> once).

Skills

• memo-wiki — bootstrap / health-check the vault
• memo-ingest — parallel batch ingestion of sources
• memo-query — answer questions from vault content
• memo-lint — find orphan pages, dead links, stale claims
• memo-save — save the current conversation or insight into the vault
• memo-notes — quick inbox capture (/memo-note, /memo-dump); list and process flows for triage
• memo-daily — append-only chronological log (/memo-daily); timestamped bullets in daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md
• memo-daily-close — end-of-day synthesis (/memo-daily-close, "close today", "wrap up today"); appends a polished ## Summary to today's daily file, idempotent on re-run
• memo-braindump — split long-form text into atomic notes (/memo-braindump, "brain dump this", "split this into notes"); each chunk filed via the full capture pipeline
• memo-autoresearch — autonomous iterative research loop
• memo-canvas — create / update Obsidian canvas files
• memo-defuddle — strip clutter from web pages before ingestion
• memo-obsidian-markdown — correct Obsidian-flavored Markdown (wikilinks, embeds, callouts)
• memo-obsidian-bases — create / edit .base files

Vault structure

<vault_path>/
  wiki/          agent-generated knowledge (hot.md, index.md, concepts/, entities/, sources/)
  notes/         inbox: verbatim quick-capture notes (owned by `memo-notes` skill)
  daily/         chronological daily log — one file per day (owned by `memo-daily` skill)
  .raw/          immutable source documents + .manifest.json
  _templates/    Obsidian Templater templates
  _attachments/  images + PDFs referenced by wiki pages
  .obsidian/     (user-owned) Obsidian app config

Why Markdown, not a vector database?

agents-memo stores memories as plain Markdown files in an Obsidian vault and retrieves them with grep. No embeddings, no vector index, no API costs.

	Markdown + grep	Vector DB
Cost	$0 - no embedding API, no storage	Embedding API + index hosting
Speed	grep over a personal vault is milliseconds	Fast, but adds an embedding step
Determinism	Same query, same result, every time	Approximate - results drift with model updates
Editability	Every memory is a file you can open, edit, link	Opaque chunks, hard to correct

The unique wins: paginated grep + read-tail reads keep LLM context small (no context explosion), retrieval is zero-cost and fully transparent, changes are auto-committed to git, and the whole knowledge graph is human-editable.

Real-world example

1. Ingest - during a project, run /memo-ingest <api-spec-url> (or obsidian create path=wiki/sources/...). The memo-ingest skill extracts entities and concepts into wiki/concepts/ and wiki/entities/ and cross-references them.
2. Query - days or weeks later, ask /memo-query "what does the API return for auth failures?". The memo-query skill searches wiki pages and synthesizes an answer with citations.
3. Save - /memo-save files the conversation or insight back into the vault.
4. Commit - every write is auto-committed to git, so the vault is a versioned, searchable memory that grows with each session.

Extension

Registers lifecycle handlers and tools for pi sessions:

• Session start / compact — injects _shared/INIT.md, hot cache, index, and project memory digest
• Tool call — rewrites obsidian calls through scripts/obsidian-cli.sh, blocks direct vault I/O, guards daily overwrites
• Tool execution end — guards wiki/hot.md against 0-byte corruption
• Agent settled — auto-commits vault git changes
• Agent end — distills the run into project + global core learnings (reflection)
• Session shutdown — cross-project promotion sweep into wiki/global-core.md

Also registers the memo_dispatch tool for delegating work to vault sub-agents (single, parallel, chain modes).

Commands

• /memo:init — initialize a vault: bootstrap (wiki-init.sh), git init, write the vault AGENTS.md, and offer the weekly lint timer (bin/install-lint-service.sh) plus a Wiki Knowledge Base pointer in the CWD project's AGENTS.md.
• /memo:promote-global — deterministic cross-project promotion sweep into wiki/global-core.md (on-demand counterpart of the session-shutdown trigger).
• /memo:compact-core — merge near-duplicate bullets in the project core.

All three are single-token names, so they are slash-dispatchable in the TUI.

Scheduled Maintenance

Lint is opt-in via a systemd user timer. bin/wiki-lint-cron.sh runs the memo-lint skill via pi -p (headless) with auto-fix and commit. Install the weekly timer with:

bin/install-lint-service.sh              # weekly, Sun 03:00 (Persistent=true)
bin/install-lint-service.sh --uninstall  # remove it
bin/install-lint-service.sh --schedule "Mon *-*-* 02:00:00"  # custom OnCalendar

Installs agents-memo-wiki-lint.{service,timer} user units; logs in journald (journalctl --user -u agents-memo-wiki-lint.service). Requires Obsidian running and the agents-memo package registered in pi.

Contributing

Prerequisites: Node.js ≥ 22 and npm.

npm install          # Install dependencies + husky pre-commit hook
npm run build        # Compile extensions (tsup)
npm run check        # Full validation: lint + format + typecheck + test

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full guide (validation gates, pre-commit hook, PR process).

More

• Repository: https://github.com/misiekhardcore/agents-memo
• Agent-facing docs (skills, vault structure, ingest rules): AGENTS.md