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Last updated: March 2026
Building a closed-loop AI chief of staff using Obsidian and Claude Code
Over the last few months, I've been iterating on a closed loop, integrated chief of staff ecosystem using Obsidian (which I love) and Claude code.
The major building blocks are -
- A morning briefing served every morning on Obsidian
- Contextual reminders throughout the day coming in Slack, where I spend most of my work time
- An evening ritual where I reflect on the day in a structured way, which generates an EOD document used by Claude code as an artifact to generate the next day's morning briefing.
Here's how it works
Basically, every morning when I wake up I run a /today Claude Code skill, which pulls yesterday's EOD document and taps into several MCPs: Action items from yesterday's Granola meetings which later it suggests adding to my Todoist to-do list, My Google Calendar meetings, My shared priority 1 initiatives in Notion and today's forecast - all these make up a morning briefing I read every day around 5:15am when I wake up.
While I read the morning report, Claude uses the document as context for reminders.json a JSON file that contains important reminders throughout the day. That file is pushed into GitHub and uses GitHub actions to send reminders as a Slack DM using a dedicated app.
Every end of day, I run an /eod Claude code skill where I go through a series of questions to reflect and Claude Code uses the document as context for the next day's morning briefing - closing the loop on the entire system.
Learned about Mermaid.ai
I had to create some architecture documents for work and one of the developers on my team introduced me to Mermaid (this) which uses simple syntax to create diagrams! Here's one for my AI chief of staff project →
Moved into a new house!
Projects, projects, everything's a project.
- Mounted 1,000 curtain rods, and an equal number of window blinds
- Installed kitchen hardware
- Assembled many IKEA pieces
- Apparently grout sealer is a thing, who knew a house could have so much grout?
- Etc.
The house is amazing though, it's everything I wanted and more.