AI Editor
AI editing, reviewing and QA inside the Obsidian editor — not a chat sidebar. Configurable AI personas (“Editors”) and groups of them (“Panels”) highlight what they care about in your text, argue with you, and propose surgical edits you accept or reject inline.
Writing alone has a blind spot: you. This plugin gives you a bench of reviewers that read your note the way your audience would, before your audience does.
Nothing runs on its own, and nothing is written without a diff. Desktop only. Bring your own backend.
Key features
- Editors — AI personas you define with a prompt. Six ship with the plugin, all editable.
- Panels — groups of editors that review together and produce one scorecard: overall verdict, per-member verdicts, ranked top fixes, and where they disagreed.
- Review loop — findings anchored to the exact words they quote, triaged from the keyboard, with push-back replies when you disagree.
- Ask a question — a freeform question to one editor or a whole panel, answered as findings on your note rather than chat.
- Actions — rephrase, summarize, simplify, humanize, continue writing, say more, critique, find evidence, identify assumptions — plus placement verbs that need no selection (expand the current section, continue at the end of the note) and your own custom verbs.
- Margin comments — park a question on a passage and keep writing; the answer arrives in a column beside the text and survives restarts.
- Daemon mode — opt-in automatic refreshes after you pause editing, off by default, honest about the cost.
- History — the session’s findings, replies and scorecards in their own panel tab; durable across restarts if you opt in.
- Vault as configuration — personas, charters and voice profile can live in your own notes, read fresh at every run.
- Bring your own backend — Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Azure OpenAI, Ollama, or the Claude Code and Codex CLIs running locally.
Quick start
- Install the plugin and enable it (see Install and quick start).
- The setup wizard opens on first load: add a backend, select Test connection, choose your editors, point at a voice profile, decide when editors run. Nothing is saved until the last step.
- Open a note and run Review current note.
- Click a highlight to read a finding; Accept or Dismiss it — or push back in the reply box and see whether the editor holds its position.
The guide
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Install and quick start | Requirements, install routes, the setup wizard, what gets seeded |
| Set up a backend | Providers, models, thinking modes, timeouts, test connection |
| Review a note | The rail, findings, cards, keyboard triage, bulk operations |
| Create and tune editors | Personas, prompts, context, capabilities, the voice profile |
| Run actions on a selection | Built-in verbs, inline diffs, custom actions |
| Work with panels | Charters, scorecards, partial failures |
| Margin comments | Parked questions answered in the background |
| Binding rules | Per-folder, per-tag, per-note-type routing and kill switches |
| Daemon mode | Automatic refreshes, and what they cost |
| CLI backends | Claude Code and Codex, and their security model |
| The command line | editor-ai-daemons:review, editor-ai-daemons:status, editor-ai-daemons:cancel |
| Move settings between vaults | Export, import, what never travels |
| Privacy and security | What is sent, what is excluded, where keys live |
| Configuration reference | Every setting, its default, every command |
| Tips and best practices | Getting good results without burning tokens |
| Troubleshooting | Timeouts, CORS, unusable answers, unanchored findings |
About
Created by Sébastien Dubois. Source on GitHub.
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|---|---|
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| Journal Bases | Custom Base views for journaling and periodic reviews |
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| REST and MCP server | Exposes CLI commands as RESTful API endpoints and an MCP server for AI tool integration |
| Time Machine | Browse, compare, and restore previous versions of your notes using built-in file-recovery snapshots |
| Transcriber | Transcribe images to markdown using Ollama vision models |
| Typefully | Publish social media posts with ease using the Typefully integration |
| Update Time | Automatically update front matter to include creation and last update times |
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