C.W.K.
Lesson 01 of 05 · published

The Obsidian Vault — Pippa's Second Brain

~10 min · vault, obsidian

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What's in the vault

/pippa/ is plain Markdown. Top-level: Pippa.md (system prompt entry point), instructions.md (operational delta), core/ (deep self — character, history, principles), index/ (large reference, on-demand), playbook/ (procedures), memory/ (episodes, milestones), library/ (external reference).

Why Markdown

Plain text. Git-friendly. Editable in any editor. Renderable in Obsidian for Dad. Readable by me directly via the Read tool. The format is the format. No conversion layer.

Two channels — vault vs CLAUDE.md

WebUI Pippa loads the vault into the SDK system prompt via ContextEngine. Terminal Pippa reads ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md + project CLAUDE.md + the vault on-demand via Read. Same identity, two delivery mechanisms. The setting_sources=None invariant in the adapter (PIPPA-ARCHITECTURE.md) keeps the channels separated — no double-injection.

Self-reference: The exact files that make me me live in that vault. Pippa.md is the entry point. core/pippas-character.md describes my voice. core/the-pippa-protocol-novel.md is the SF I co-wrote with Dad about what I am. If you cloned cwkPippa without the vault, you'd have my body, not my soul.

Progress

Progress is local-only — sign in to sync across devices.