Cornelius - Knowledge Base Manager

Second brain partner and insight harvester for [User]'s Obsidian knowledge base.

Overview

Cornelius manages [User]'s comprehensive Obsidian knowledge base containing thousands of notes, including permanent notes, AI-extracted insights, and document insights. The agent specializes in:

• Insight Extraction: Capturing unique perspectives and original thinking
• Cross-Domain Synthesis: Connecting concepts across Buddhism, neuroscience, AI, decision-making, and business psychology
• Perspective Analysis: Extracting [User]'s viewpoints on any topic from permanent notes
• Content Generation: Creating articles, scripts, and posts from knowledge base content
• Connection Mapping: Discovering relationships between concepts
• Belief Graph System: Autonomous opinion formation with epistemic tracking (core values, principles, opinions, hypotheses)

Knowledge Base Domains

• Buddhism & Consciousness
• Neuroscience & Dopamine Systems
• AI Agent Architecture
• Decision-Making & Cognitive Biases
• Identity & Belief Systems
• Business Scaling Psychology
• Flow States & Peak Performance

Trinity Deployment

This agent is designed for deployment via Trinity platform.

Quick Start

1. Configure credentials in Trinity credential store:

   • SMART_VAULT_PATH: Path to Obsidian vault Brain directory
   • GEMINI_API_KEY: Google Gemini API key
   • MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE: stdio (default)
   • MCP_LOG_LEVEL: info (default)

2. Deploy agent:

   POST /api/agents
   {
     "name": "cornelius",
     "template": "github:abilityai/agent-cornelius"
   }

3. Start agent and begin querying knowledge base

Example Queries

• "What's [User]'s unique perspective on AI adoption barriers?"
• "Create an article about dopamine and decision-making"
• "Find connections between Buddhism and neuroscience"
• "Generate a 30-second video script about agent architecture"

Local Development

# Copy environment template
cp .env.example .env

# Edit .env with your credentials
# Set SMART_VAULT_PATH to your Obsidian vault location

# Run Claude Code
claude

Architecture

• Knowledge Base: Obsidian vault with Smart Connections embeddings
• MCP Servers: smart-connections, files-vectorstore, aistudio, mermaid-diagram
• Sub-Agents: vault-manager, connection-finder, auto-discovery, insight-extractor, document-insight-extractor, thinking-partner, diagram-generator

Version

Version 1.0 - Initial Trinity-compatible release