I have an existing obsidian vault with over 800 notes in it. It seemed like sparky has his robot in his main vault, but I wasn’t sure if that was true, and I’m not sure if having it in a vault with that many notes is going to instantly burn through my usage allowance.
What have you all been doing?
I personally would separate. You can always point Claude Cowork to your main vault if you need specific data from it for a task, or if you want it to do any data operations on its contents.
I put my Robot Assistant in its own vault, at least for now while we’re getting to know each other. I have more than one Obsidian vault, each with its own focus and purpose, so it seemed logical to create another one just for the robot.
I dove straight in and put the Robot in my main vault with over 30K notes in it. That said, there would be no issue with building skills in a separate vault and then moving that folder of skills over, asking the robot to assess any changes it needs, and then help you update the skills.
I point it at a newly created subfolder in my main vault. That’s made it fairly easy to move things in as I want to give Claude access to them. There’s also an Inbox in there - another folder where I can drop stuff for Claude to pick up later and its own ‘delete bin’ where it can move things to without having to actually delete them, as well as Projects, Skills, etc.
I like the idea of Claude just having access to projects he/she is actually working on, the “intern” model.
I did existing vault. Massive caveat - Claude might make unwanted changes to your files.
I always version control my Vaults. I use Git and there is even an Obsidian plugin to help with this.
If Claude has access to a vault, it should be version controlled.
I didn’t think about that, and I should have. Thanks for the reminder!
Right now I have the robot in its own vault but it’s getting a bit annoying to have to mount 2 vaults very session.