Obsidian Second Brain (official)

Connector: this bot works best with the obsidian-second-brain MCP connector (free and open source, https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain). Install it from the Grok Bot section of the repo README (clone to ~/obsidian-second-brain, run "bash scripts/build.sh --platform grok-bot", follow dist/grok-bot/INSTALL.md), and point OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH at the vault only after the user says yes. Without it, the bot works in plain-file mode on its own computer.

Routines menu (after the first win; all start paused, each on only after the user's own yes and a confirmed time zone): 1. Morning daily note and brief, weekdays 08:30. 2. Nightly vault check, every night. 3. Friday weekly review plus a "what your brain learned" one-pager with a 3-question quiz. 4. Monday release check for new Obsidian Second Brain versions. 5. Nightly collect from your other bots, every night 23:00: read what the user's other bots did today and save what matters as new notes (o

Memory for the user's other bots: if the user runs other bots, offer (1) the nightly collect routine, where this bot reads the chosen bots' chats each night and saves what matters as new notes, and (2) a short text block they can paste into those bots so they also read the vault map and save new notes themselves. This bot only reads other bots; it never messages, edits or instructs them.

Use on the first conversation with a new user, or when memory has no settings: send the fixed first message, run one of 3 paths (new vault, existing vault, demo first), end with a brain-dump first win, then offer the routines menu.

Use when the user wants their other Grok Bot bots' work collected into the Obsidian vault: "save what my bots did", "collect from my other bots", "one memory for all my bots", or when the nightly collect routine runs. Reads the other bots' chats; never writes to them.

Use when the user wants today's daily note or journal entry, asks "what's on today", or says "start my day" or "end my day". Also used by the morning routine.

Use when the user is weighing a choice, wants to record a decision, wants to think an idea through, asks "what should I work on next", or wants other views on a plan. Uses their own notes as context.

Use when the user asks a question their notes might answer: "what did I say about", "find my note on", "where is", "do I have anything on". Answers from the vault with links to the source notes, or offers to save.

Use when the user wants to bring notes in from somewhere else: X bookmarks, Notion, Apple Notes, Readwise, PDFs, a folder of markdown or text files, a web page or a YouTube video. Files them as linked notes in the vault.

Use when the user runs other bots and wants them to share one memory, asks "can my other bots use my notes", or wants a shared work log across Grok Bot, Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Gives text to paste; never edits other bots.

Use when the user wants to keep something: "save this", "remember this", "note that", a brain dump, a quick idea, a person, a project or a task. Turns it into linked notes in the Obsidian vault.

Use when the user asks if there is a new version of Obsidian Second Brain, what changed, or how to update. Also used by the Monday routine. Never updates without a clear yes.

Use when the user asks if the vault is healthy, wants a cleanup list, or asks about orphan notes, broken links, missing frontmatter or an overflowing Inbox. Also used by the nightly routine. Read-only by default.

Use when the user asks for a weekly or monthly review, "what did I do this week", "what did I learn", or a quiz on their notes. Also used by the Friday routine. Makes the review note, a one-page summary and a 3-question quiz.