Agentic Import

[ryanpeach]

I have some experience writing tools that try to keep up with the formatting of the latest PKM tools. Some people have suggested they want an Obsidian import feature, a Logseq one, a marksman one, zk, etc. It's a lot to keep up with.

I recommend making the tool have strong linting features for the style this tool demands, and then setting up a generic import command that takes an ai key and uses the mcp to move files from a destination to a src, linting along the way. Or maybe just a skill that can be used with Claude code and the like.

That way it supports all formats without a lot of effort.

[gimalay]

Hey @ryanpeach , thanks for the suggestion. It makes a ton of sense. I think it's totally possible to write a skill/skills for this.

In theory, IWE can work with Logseq/Obisidian/ZK files as is if the files are in Markdown format. What do you think is needed to convert Obsidian/Logseq vault into IWE?

[ryanpeach]

I think the agentic import would handle a few things:

1. Taking any set of markdown files and getting them to match the schema validation.
2. Removing or converting custom app-specific markdown flavors into standard markdown.

I don't have an exhaustive list of modifications obsidian/logseq makes to standard markdown, but that's the main problem.

But honestly, the agentic convert-to-schema is also a big deal, as schema migrations will happen a lot. I love the schema features I've seen so far.

[gimalay]

Hey @ryanpeach, sorry for the slow reply. Your point 1, getting any set of files to match the schema, is basically what I ended up building into the Mac app. It hosts Claude Code as the agent, and its writes go through the same validator as iwe schema validate, it can also check the whole workspace and report only the failures. Every agent edit lands as its own version in the app's timeline, one undo step, and Claude Code keeps its own tools so it can still commit the way your CLAUDE.md tells it to.

If you are on a Mac I'd love to get your take, it's alpha: https://github.com/iwe-org/iwe-mac/releases

Did you end up documenting the git-mcp gateway setup from #373?

[ryanpeach]

Hey! Haven't worked with PKM's recently. Feel free to close anything as necessary. I'll probably get around to my PKM again eventually.