I'm a PhD student in AI and I built a 10-agent Obsidian crew because my brain couldn't keep up with my life anymore

Hey everyone. I want to share something I built for myself and see if anyone has feedback or interest in helping me improve it. ***Introduction***\*: I'm a PhD student in AI. Ironically, despite researching this stuff, I only recently started seriously using LLM-based tools beyond "validate this proof" or "check my formalization". My actual experience with prompt engineering and agentic workflows is... let's say..fresh. I'm being upfront about this because I know the prompts and architecture of this project are very much criticizable.\* **The problem**: My brain ran out of space. Not in any dramatic medical way, just the slow realization that between papers, deadlines, meetings, emails, health stuff, and trying to have a life, my working memory was constantly overflowing. I'd forget what I read. Lose track of commitments. Feel perpetually behind. *I tried various Obsidian setups. They all required me to maintain the system, which is exactly the thing I don't have the bandwidth for. I needed something where I just talk and everything else happens automatically.* **Related Work**: How this is different from other second brains. I've seen a lot of Obsidian + Claude projects out there. Most of them fall into two categories: optimized persistent memory so Claude has better context when working on your repo, or structured project management workflows. Both are cool, both are useful but neither was what I needed. I didn't need Claude to remember my codebase better. I needed Claude to tell me I've been eating like garbage for two weeks straight. **Why I'm posting**: I know there are a LOT of repos doing Obsidian + Claude stuff. I'm not claiming mine is better (ofc not). Honestly, I'd be surprised if the prompt structures aren't full of rookie mistakes. I've been in the "write articles and prove theorems" world, not the "craft optimal system prompts" world. What's different about my angle for this project is that this isn't a persistent memory for support claude in developing something. It's the opposite, Claude as the entire interface for managing parts of your life that you need to offload to someone else. **What I'm looking for**: * **Prompt engineering advice:** if you see obvious anti-patterns or know better structures, I'm all ears * **Anyone interested in contributing:** seriously, every PR is welcome. I'm not precious about the code. If you can make an agent smarter or fix my prompt structure, please do * **Other PhD students / researchers / overwhelmed knowledge workers:** does this resonate? What would you need from something like this? Repo: https://github.com/gnekt/My-Brain-Is-Full-Crew MIT licensed. The health agents come with disclaimers and mandatory consent during onboarding, they're explicitly not medical advice. # Edit: I briefly set the repo to private to clean up the history and GitHub reset all watchers and forks. If you were watching or had forked it, you may need to re-do that, sorry for the inconvenience!