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Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles

Cursor Agent writes and maintains interlinked markdown pages from user-supplied sources, summarizing and cross-referencing, with Obsidian used to browse.

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Use case overview

Cursor Agent writes and maintains interlinked markdown pages from user-supplied sources, summarizing and cross-referencing, with Obsidian used to browse.

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Reported experience

  1. What they did

    The vault folder is opened in both Cursor and Obsidian. Sources go into an immutable raw/ folder, and an AGENTS.md file sets the wiki's conventions. The user tells the agent to ingest one source. It writes a summary, updates the index and related pages, and appends to a log. The user reads the summaries and steers. Later, lint passes check for contradictions and orphan pages.

  2. How it went

    The source is a pattern description, not a report with results. It says one source can touch 10–15 pages and that the index approach works at roughly 100 sources without search infrastructure.

  3. Worth knowing

    Ingest sources one at a time and review the summaries. The author does this, though batch ingest with less supervision is possible. Add a search tool such as qmd once the index stops being enough.

Example prompts

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Read the sources in [folder of papers and articles] on [topic] and build a wiki of interlinked markdown pages in [wiki folder]: one page per [concept / paper / person], each with a summary and links to related pages. Add an index page. Finish when every source is covered and links resolve, and ask me before overwriting any existing file.

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