Vin: Autonomous Agents Can Be Steered Entirely via Knowledge Vaults
Vin (Internet Vin) · How I Use Obsidian + Claude Code to Run My Life · Feb 23, 2026 · at 27:09
Vin and host Greg Isenberg discuss using autonomous AI agents (like OpenClaw) connected to personal Obsidian vaults to automate decision-making.
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“And now instead of like managing an agent or talking to another human about working on something, I just focus on managing this vault. This is like the new source. I just continually try and make it so that this vault has all of the information needed so that I can delegate to an agent and the agent can just pull from this vault source and make decisions. And if it's not making the right decisions, I'm changing something on the vault. I'm not necessarily working with the agent specifically.”
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