Feynman Research Agent is an Obsidian plugin that turns a local knowledge vault into a research assistant powered by the user’s own Anthropic API key. It is designed for students, researchers, writers, analysts, and heavy Obsidian users who want agentic help over their notes without uploading an entire vault to a separate SaaS. The official Obsidian plugin page states that it runs locally in Docker and requires Obsidian 1.5 or newer, giving users a clear install path and security model. As a Smartoolbox listing, it fits the gap between generic chatbots and serious knowledge-work tools: the agent lives where research notes already are, can reason over local material, and supports workflows such as literature review, synthesis, and question answering inside Obsidian.
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