Build a personal research wiki from papers and articles

One practitioner notes that the vault folder is opened in both Cursor and Obsidian. Sources go into an immutable raw/ folder, and an AGENTS.md file sets the wiki's conventions. The source is a pattern description, not a report with results.

Agent or tool: Cursor
Topic: Knowledge & Notes
Reported on: GitHub
Added: 2026-10-15

Why it matters

Notes are only useful if you can find and connect them later. Agents that organise, summarise and link information make a personal knowledge base far easier to keep up. It is one of 44 sightings filed under Knowledge & Notes on Agent Sightings (number 35 by interest), and one of 30 involving Cursor.

How you could try it

Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Cursor or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.

Notes task: build a personal research wiki from papers and articles. Propose edits as a checklist, apply after approval, and finish with a short handover.

Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.

Source

Read the original first-hand account on GitHub: https://github.com/rbarok/obsidian-cursor-knowledge-graph/blob/main/cursor-obsi…. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.

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