{"repo":"sturlese/hippocampus","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/sturlese/hippocampus","clone":"git clone https://github.com/sturlese/hippocampus.git","description":"A deliberately lite personal brain: Obsidian to browse, Claude Code for everything else. No vector DB, no embeddings, no MCP servers, no Obsidian plugins — markdown, one stdlib Python script and a link graph.","language":"Python","stars":23,"topics":["claude-code","knowledge-base","llm","markdown","note-taking","obsidian","obsidian-vault","pkm","second-brain","ai-notes"],"license":"MIT","category":"productivity","readme_excerpt":"A deliberately lite personal brain: Obsidian to browse, Claude Code for everything else. Zero dependencies, zero infrastructure — the intelligence lives in the structure. Drop messy notes into an inbox. Claude consolidates them into a structured, cross-linked Obsidian vault — YAML frontmatter, wikilinks, a master index — and remembers where you left off between sessions. You talk to your notes from the terminal; Obsidian is just the (beautiful) viewer. Nothing is hidden: every step of that pipeline is a file you can open. Named after the brain structure that consolidates raw experience into long-term memory, because that is literally the pipeline: inbox/ (raw experience) → ingest (consolidation) → wiki/ (long-term memory), with wiki/hot.md as working memory carrying recent context from session to session. Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern, stripped to the essentials. --- Philosophy Most AI second-brain setups accumulate machinery: vector databases, embedding pipelines, MCP servers, sync daemons, plugin stacks. Hippocampus bets the other way — the intelligence lives in the structure, not the infrastructure : - No vector DB, no embeddings, no BM25. Retrieval is a 3-step read: hot cache → master index → the 3–5 relevant pages. For a personal vault, that beats a rebuild-the-index pipeline — here is the full argument. - No MCP servers, no REST APIs. The vault is plain markdown; Claude Code's native file tools are the transport. - No Obsidian plugins required. Graph view,","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/sturlese","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/sturlese/hippocampus/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}