Hey everyone, I’ve been thinking about a personal project that I might build for myself, and I have a feeling that some of you might find it interesting as well. The idea is to create an Obsidian plugin that seamlessly integrates a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflow. Essentially, wheneve…

There are already several. Check the plugin directory.

I think it’s a very interesting idea. I think it would be very useful if we could include an option where the plugin could even consider a part of a vault as a rag section to respond to analyses about that other section.

Do you have any suggestion about the keywords that can be used for search these plugins?

Hi @JeremyLoman I have been experimenting with RAG in Obsidian with existing community plugins like BMO Chat, Smart Connections and CoPilot. I’m finding that these plugins (in their current state) are not quite as useful for RAG as I would like them to be. BMO can only reference one note and CoPil…

Having only a shallow understanding of RAG technology, I think the following points need attention: Chunking in RAG is a major challenge. Poor chunking can lead to inaccurate and less usable data retrieval. Perhaps we can refer to some NLP chunking methods? Or consider using the latest Agentic RAG?…

I was surprised that there is no solid RAG implementation for Obsidian yet. There is even a Lanchain connecter for Obsidian ( Obsidian | 🦜️🔗 LangChain ) But I am not sure who/which plugin is using it. I would be happy to support this initiative

Any recommendations of plugins to look at?

Well I think there’s sort of an issue that’s outside the scope of Obsidian. I can tell ya from working with these in industry the past two or so years, it’s hard to abstract into a plugin alone. I think realistically, the plugin actually would be simple which is why there is many - if you code you…

But to drive home the point, RAG is best when you have full control. And when the word is used, it gets confusing to understand how much of the AI or RAG the tool is doing. And who is hosting, where that data is going to, and explaining that so people know their obsidian notes may or may not be pr…

I wonder, won’t opening Cursor to your vault’s root not work? :thinking: It seems to have the ability to both do intelligent grepping, and some very quick vectorization and RAG under-the-hood when you just open it to a folder. I opened to my own vault, and it seems to work pretty well, answering a…

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cybaea January 31, 2026, 6:58pm 15

Coming along nicely, I think. There is now an overview here:

Latest release notes are here: Release 4.3.1 · cybaea/obsidian-vault-intelligence · GitHub

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