Is there any way to integrate an AI tool in an Obsidian vault?

[goahead97]

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What I’m trying to do

I am trying to install an AI tool that answers questions based on the knowledge of a specific Obsidian vault. Is there any way to integrate an AI tool in an Obsidian vault?

Thanks in advance

Things I have tried

[reaty]

I don’t use AI, but there are a ton of AI community plugins, you should just look for them.

[camadkins]

Add this to your list of things to try:

Plugins - Obsidian

[JimK]

If I’m reading this right, you want the answers to your prompts to come from a specific Obsidian vault instead of from a trained model like GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, Grok, etc?

Usually, AI uses a trained model to pull its replies from. The model is ‘trained’ with tons of data on the particular subject(s) rather than just a list of text data like you would have in a vault AI isn’t using text data like you have in a vault, the models are using algorithms to put smaller bits of related data together based on relations to those bits of data and how well they match the prompt (much more complex than that but…I’m no expert at AI but with the little bit we use it at the company I work at this is my understanding of it).

I don’t think there is any that would pull directly from a vault instead for those reasons. There might be some plugin that fakes it, but I don’t think so/know of one.

Looking at some of the available plug ins, you may be able to fake it by using something like obsidian-ai-chat plugin and asking it to use your vault. But you would still need an API key from one of the existing trained models.

So basically instead of "Hey Obsidian Valt what is…? you would be saying "Hey AI-Chat with ChatGPT apikey, based on my vault what is…?

In other words you would still be going through an existing AI model instead of directly through your vault. If you do something like this keep in mind some existing AI sites will use what you put in to train new models so don’t put in anything you aren’t ok with them using.