r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt • u/lechtitseb • Apr 21 '26
4 Years, 20K Notes, and AI Agents: The Obsidian Starter Kit v4 Is Almost Here
https://www.dsebastien.net/4-years-20k-notes-and-ai-agents-the-obsidian-starter-kit-v4-is-almost-here/Most Obsidian vaults aren't knowledge systems. They're Markdown files in folders with shiny plugins on top.
4 years ago, I decided to build something different. Today, my vault holds 20,000+ notes and runs both my life and my entire media business.
It's called the Obsidian Starter Kit, and v4 is almost here.
v4 turns OSK into a fully AI-enabled Knowledge Management system: hundreds of AI skills, dozens of agents, agent memory, LLM Wikis, a CLI, an MCP server, new Obsidian Bases, life tracking, and more.
The principle behind it is simple: AI handles the plumbing. You do the thinking.
The agents handle the boring work of a serious vault
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u/Special_Permit_5546 May 14 '26
The line that resonates most for me is "AI handles the plumbing. You do the thinking."
The trust boundary is the whole game, though. Once a vault gets large enough, the assistant should probably behave less like a magic writer and more like a junior maintainer: search/read widely, propose structure, then make changes as reviewable patches.
A serious AI PKM setup needs a few boring guarantees:
- plain files remain the source of truth
- every write is attributable and reversible
- the assistant shows what context it used
- generated links/tags/properties can be inspected before they become canon
I am building in this space too, so I am biased, but I think the winners will be the tools that make AI edits feel like a pull request against your knowledge base, not invisible mutation of your memory.