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Edit your workspace in Obsidian

Obsidian is the calm, human-friendly way to open your agent's home folder. It turns the Markdown files your agent uses into a readable workspace: notes, dashboards, planner pages, memory, and knowledge base files, all in one place.

Why you need it

Your agent reads and edits plain files in its workspace. Obsidian lets you read and edit those same files without needing a code editor. Use it to review your Daily Planner, adjust habits, edit knowledge base notes, or inspect the instructions your agent follows.

Set it up

1

Download Obsidian

Go to the official download page and install the app for your computer.

Download Obsidian
2

Open your agent workspace as a vault

In Obsidian, choose Open folder as vault, then select the workspace folder your harness created when it installed the Divergent Starter Pack. This is the folder with files like AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md, skills, and knowledge-base.

3

Trust the workspace when Obsidian asks

The first time you open the vault, Obsidian warns you because the starter pack includes plugins. Click Trust author and enable plugins. The dashboards need those plugins to run.

See the trust prompt

Plugins included

The Divergent Starter Pack comes with these community plugins already installed and ready for the workspace:

Dataview

Runs the live planner and habit dashboards from ordinary Markdown notes.

Editing Toolbar

Adds a familiar formatting toolbar for notes, lists, links, and headings.

HTML Reader

Lets Obsidian open local .html and .htm files from the workspace.

Print

Adds a simple way to print notes and documents from Obsidian.

VSCode Editor

Makes code-like files easier to read and edit when you need to inspect agent files.

Next: Meet your dashboards

Your workspace comes with two live dashboards — a Daily Planner and a Habit Tracker. Meet your dashboards walks through opening them.

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