Use Case: Deep Research & Obsidian

Overview

Perform deep web research on any topic and automatically save a formatted report to your Obsidian vault.

Prerequisites

• Jazz CLI installed.
• Obsidian installed (no special plugin required, just file access).

Step-by-Step

1. Install Skills: Ensure you have the deep-research and obsidian skills available.

   jazz skill list

2. Run the Command: Ask Jazz to research a topic and save it.

   jazz "Research the history of quantum computing and save a summary to my Obsidian vault under 'Research/Quantum'"

   Or via chat interface:

   “Research the impact of AI on healthcare over the last 5 years. Focus on personalized medicine. Save the report to Obsidian.”

3. What Jazz Does:

   • Plans a research strategy.
   • Searches the web using multiple queries.
   • Reads and analyzes relevant pages.
   • Synthesizes findings into a markdown report with citations.
   • Saves the file to your specified Obsidian path (e.g., /Users/you/Obsidian/Research/Quantum.md).

Customization

You can create a specialized “Researcher” agent with only these skills to keep it focused.

jazz agent create --name "Researcher" --skills "deep-research,obsidian" --model "anthropic:claude-3-5-sonnet"