KarMind

KarMind

中文说明

KarMind is an Obsidian plugin for building a personal knowledge wiki with an LLM. It follows a "collect, compile, ask, backfill, improve" workflow inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.

For step-by-step guidance, see the usage guide.

What KarMind does

• Collect raw materials in a configurable raw/ folder.
• Compile changed raw notes into a persistent interlinked wiki/.
• Ask questions with relevant wiki context.
• Backfill useful answers and analysis into the wiki.
• Run health checks for broken links, orphan pages, missing concepts, and consistency issues.
• Show long-running task progress and file operations in the chat panel.

Workflow

1. Put source material into raw/. For web articles, Obsidian Web Clipper is recommended.
2. Run /compile to turn raw material into wiki pages. This can consume many LLM tokens.
3. Ask questions with /qa your question.
4. Save useful outputs with /backfill content.
5. Run /health to inspect wiki quality.

KarMind keeps source compilation state in wiki/.karmind/source-manifest.json using content hashes. Unchanged raw files are skipped unless you run /compile --force.

Commands

KarMind can also suggest workflow actions in chat. Suggested actions require user confirmation before they run.

Settings

• Language: Follow Obsidian, English, or Chinese UI text.
• LLM API base URL: OpenAI-compatible endpoint, for example https://api.openai.com/v1.
• API key: Stored through Obsidian SecretStorage. The default secret ID is karmind-api-key.
• Model: Model name passed to the OpenAI-compatible API.
• Raw folder: Folder for source material.
• Wiki folder: Folder for compiled wiki pages.
• Default permission: Basic Q&A or enhanced note operations.

Privacy and network use

KarMind does not include telemetry, ads, or automatic updates.

KarMind only makes network requests when you run LLM-powered actions or test the LLM connection. Requests are sent to the API base URL you configure. Depending on the command, the request may include:

• Your chat message.
• Relevant wiki pages.
• Raw source note content during compilation.
• Backfill content.
• Health-check excerpts from wiki pages.

Your API provider may log or process that data according to its own policy. Do not use KarMind with sensitive notes unless you trust the configured provider.

API keys are stored locally via Obsidian SecretStorage. KarMind stores conversation history and plugin settings in the plugin data for this vault.

Files KarMind writes

KarMind writes only inside your Obsidian vault:

• raw/: source material you collect.
• wiki/: generated wiki pages.
• wiki/_index.md: generated wiki index.
• wiki/log.md: append-only workflow log.
• wiki/.karmind/source-manifest.json: source hash cache.
• wiki/_reports/health/: health-check reports.

Installation for development

npm install
npm run build

For local testing, copy or keep this repository at:

<Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-karmind/

Then enable KarMind in Settings -> Community plugins.

Release assets

For a GitHub release, attach these files as release assets:

• main.js
• manifest.json
• styles.css

The release tag must match manifest.json exactly, for example 0.1.2.

Community plugin submission

Submit this entry to obsidianmd/obsidian-releases:

{
  "id": "karmind",
  "name": "KarMind",
  "author": "Lhy723",
  "description": "Manage notes with LLM-powered wiki compilation, Q&A, backfill, and health checks.",
  "repo": "Lhy723/obsidian-karmind"
}

Third-party code and dependencies

• The knowledge workflow is inspired by Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki idea file.
• React and React DOM are used for the plugin interface.
• motion is used for UI animation.
• Animated UI patterns are adapted from React Bits examples for AnimatedList, BlurText, and ShinyText.

License

MIT License. See LICENSE.