Agentic AI for Neuroscience · Second Brain

22 April 2026
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The plan

90 min · 6 phases

Build a personal research wiki from a folder of your own papers. Agent ingests raw PDFs, compiles a wiki of summaries and concepts with backlinks, then you query across it and render the answer as markdown or slides. Follows Karpathy's LLM Knowledge Bases pattern. Process slides: 22-april-slides.html. OpenRouter API key is posted in Slack.

01 · 5 min
Kickoff
Shared OpenRouter key via QR. Agent / provider / model layers recap.
02 · 20 min
Install
Obsidian + opencode + paste key + open empty vault folder.
03 · 10 min
Ingest
Drop 3–5 papers into raw/. Optionally clip one web article via Obsidian Web Clipper.
04 · 25 min
Compile
Agent writes wiki/: per-paper summaries, concept articles, backlinks.
05 · 20 min
Q&A
Ask one cross-paper question; render the answer as a .md file or Marp deck.
06 · 10 min
Share
3–4 people share their wiki in Slack. Post one surprising connection the agent found.

Bring this

  • Laptop with macOS, Windows, or Linux. Admin rights to install apps.
  • 3–5 PDFs of papers you actually want to think about — review articles + primary research works best.

No need to install anything in advance — we will install Obsidian and opencode together during the install phase. If you want to get ahead, see Setup and Get OpenCode.

// UKDRI · Skene Lab · Imperial v1.0 · 2026-04-22