Debate Partner

An adversarial reasoning engine built as a local Obsidian plugin. It challenges your thinking using your own vault data and a local LLM.

How It Works

Thesis Extraction: Grabs the currently selected text in the active editor when you trigger the command.
Local TF-IDF Search: A lightweight, mathematical Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) engine crawls all .md files in your vault to find the top 5 most relevant notes matching the concepts in your thesis.
Steel-Man Engine: Sends the selected thesis and the matching notes context to your local Ollama endpoint (http://localhost:11434/api/generate) running llama3 (or your model of choice).
Adversarial UI: Renders 3 ranked counterarguments in a custom right-sidebar leaf. The arguments highlight the severity of the conceptual contradiction and insert functioning internal links (e.g., [[My Note]]) referencing the source material, which you can click to navigate back directly to the source notes.

Copy the plugin folder to your vault's .obsidian/plugins/ directory.
Ensure you have the main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css files inside that directory.
Reload Obsidian and enable Debate Partner in the Community Plugins settings.

Install dependencies:

npm install

Build the bundle:

npm run build