Kiln Claude

Claude in a side panel, next to the note you're writing.

• Chat about the open note. The first message of a chat can carry the active note as context. Click the note chip to turn that off.
• Improve selection. Select text, run Kiln Claude: Improve selection, and the selection is rewritten in place.
• Continue writing. Kiln Claude: Continue writing at cursor streams new text straight into the editor.
• Use a reply. Under each reply: copy it, insert it at your cursor, or save it as a new note.
• Reversible edits. If you also use the Kiln History plugin, a snapshot is taken before Claude changes a note.

Pick Claude Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 or Haiku 5.5, and an effort level, in the settings.

Setup

1. Get an API key from console.anthropic.com.
2. Open Settings → Kiln Claude → Anthropic API key, create a secret and paste your key into it. The key is kept in Obsidian's secret storage, not in your vault.

Disclosures

• Account and payment: you need an Anthropic API account. Requests are billed to that account at Anthropic's API prices. A claude.ai subscription does not cover API use.
• Network use: the plugin sends requests only to api.anthropic.com, and only when you send a message or run a command. A request contains your message and, if the note chip is on, the text of the active note.
• No telemetry and no other network calls.

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Requires Obsidian 1.13.2 or later.

License

MIT