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Eleanor Berger showed us how she runs a personal agent on top of an Obsidian and Markdown knowledge base. Here are the materials to explore the system yourself.
Explore Eleanor's system
What you can learn from it
Eleanor keeps her knowledge in a Markdown vault, not locked inside one agent or app. The same durable notes, project context, and instructions can be used by Obsidian, command-line tools, and different agent runtimes.
The repository and slides show how to:
- keep notes flat, typed, and linked, so projects, people, and meetings remain usable context;
- capture durable notes from meetings, agent chats, journals, and web clipping;
- give agents shared, versioned instructions through
AGENTS.md; and
- retrieve the right material through structured queries, indexed search, and direct grounding in source documents.
More from Eleanor
- Meet Fnord, Eleanor's personal agent. Minutes before a livestream, Eleanor sent Fnord one Discord message asking it to make an interactive page. It published a live catalogue of its skills, child agents, model route, and Discord and WhatsApp channels.
- How Eleanor builds software with AI-assisted coding. In an earlier workshop with Eleanor and Isaac Flath, they used a plan-first workflow: write a real specification, have the model research and propose a plan, review it, then work through it in controlled steps.
AGENTS.md becomes living documentation instead of a prompt you keep repeating.
From a personal agent to an enterprise agent
Real agents don't just chat: they find, organize, and act.