Obsidian + Agentic AI? 🧠 Full Hermes Obsidian Workflow & Wiki Prep

I'm able to create whatever files I want inside of this private folder and Hermes won't be able to see it at all. For the readonly folder, Hermes can only read the files here. It can't write or modify files. And for read and write, Hermes is able to do whatever it wants. That's exactly what we're going for. Everyone

is talking about using Obsidian with Aentic AI, but AI doesn't need to see every part of your vault. Sometimes you want to limit the access your agent has to your vault, so it can only see what you want it to see, and it can only change what you want it to change. a way

to keep your human notes and your AI notes separate but within the same vault. Hi, my name is Callum, also known as Wanderloots, and welcome to today's video on connecting Obsidian to Agentic AI. I'm using Hermes agent, but this process applies to any AI agent. For more on getting your Hermes agent set up

safely, check out my Agentic AI playlist. Today, I want to focus on setting up Obsidian and connecting it to Hermes, enabling version control with Git, the three levels of access controls, using skills or Docker, and then testing the setup to make sure our controls work. By the end of this video, your Hermes agent will be able to read,

search, create, link, and edit notes in Obsidian while you control exactly which notes it can see and touch. Now, let's get Obsidian set up. You can kind of think of Obsidian like a library of world knowledge for both you and your agent. A shared knowledge layer, ground truth that can then be used by any other agentic AI. You can

build it once and then use it forever. Your agent can link, create, search, and update notes, making it the perfect way to build a Wikipedia of personal knowledge for you and your agent. Now, Obsidian and world knowledge is separate from Agentic Memory, which is more about how you like to operate and tracking the