Installation

Required Tools

Tool	Install	Purpose
Claude Code	npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code	The AI engine
Obsidian	brew install --cask obsidian	Wiki viewer
Git	brew install git	Version control
Node.js	brew install node	Runtime

Optional (auto-installed on first use)

Tool	Install	Used by
yt-dlp	brew install yt-dlp	YouTube ingest
Poppler	brew install poppler	PDF ingest
Pandoc	brew install pandoc	Office doc ingest
qmd	brew install qmd	Wiki search
Marp CLI	pnpm add -g @marp-team/marp-cli	Slide generation

Install Script

The install script handles everything interactively:

./install.sh

It checks each tool and offers to install anything missing via Homebrew.

Obsidian Plugins

Recommended plugins for the best experience:

• Graph View (built-in) — visualize wiki connections
• Backlinks (built-in) — see what links to current page
• Dataview — query pages by frontmatter
• Local Images Plus — download remote images
• Marp Slides — view generated presentations
• Web Clipper (browser extension) — clip articles to raw/