Smart Vault Chat

A powerful Obsidian plugin with multi-provider AI support: Yandex AI Studio, Groq (free), OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, GigaChat (Sber).

Features

• 💬 Chat panel — full chat in the sidebar with persistent history between sessions
• 🗄️ Vault search — AI finds relevant notes and answers based on them (RAG)
• 📅 Date-aware search — ask "what did I write on April 12th?" and AI uses note creation/modification dates
• 📄 Note context — add the current note to context with one click
• ✂️ Inline editing — select text → right-click → translate / shorten / improve / explain
• 🔄 Text replacement — after AI responds, it offers to replace the selected text in your note
• 📋 Sources — shows which notes AI used, with clickable links to open them
• 🔗 Clickable note references — note.md links in AI responses open directly in Obsidian
• 📱 Mobile support — adaptive layout for Obsidian Mobile
• 🎨 Dark/light theme — adapts automatically to your Obsidian theme
• 🌍 Bilingual UI — Russian and English interface based on your Obsidian language setting

Supported Providers

Installation

Via BRAT (recommended for beta testing)

1. Install the BRAT plugin from the Obsidian community catalog
2. BRAT → "Add Beta plugin" → logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt
3. Enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins

Manual installation

git clone https://github.com/logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt.git
cd obsidian-ya-gpt
npm install
npm run build
cp main.js manifest.json styles.css /path/to/vault/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-ya-gpt/

API Key Setup

Groq — Free ⭐

1. Go to console.groq.com
2. Sign up (free, no credit card required)
3. API Keys → Create API Key
4. Paste the key in plugin settings

Yandex AI Studio

1. Go to console.yandex.cloud
2. Create a service account
3. IAM → API Keys → Create
4. Copy your Folder ID from the catalog URL
5. Paste both values in plugin settings

OpenAI

1. Go to platform.openai.com/api-keys
2. Create new secret key
3. Paste the key in plugin settings

Anthropic Claude

1. Go to console.anthropic.com
2. API Keys → Create Key
3. Paste the key in plugin settings

GigaChat (Sber)

1. Go to developers.sber.ru and sign in with Sber ID
2. Create a project and connect the GigaChat API
3. In the Authorization Data section, copy the Authorization Key
4. Paste the key in plugin settings

Usage

Chat

• Click the 🤖 icon in the sidebar, or use Cmd+P → Open Ya GPT Chat
• Enter — send message, Shift+Enter — new line

Vault Search

• Click the 🗄️ button in the chat header (turns red when active)
• AI will find relevant notes and show them as clickable sources below its response
• Ask date-based questions: "What did I write about marketing in March?"

Inline Editing

1. Select text in any note
2. Right-click → Ya GPT section:
   • Translate — auto-detects language direction
   • Shorten — concise version preserving meaning
   • Improve text — style and readability
   • Explain — simple explanation
   • Ask... — your custom question
3. The response appears in the chat with a "Replace in note" button

Commands (Cmd+P)

Security

• API keys are stored locally in Obsidian's encrypted storage (data.json), never sent to third parties
• Requests go directly from your device to the chosen AI provider
• Chat history is stored locally in your device's localStorage only
• Vault data is sent only within your AI request context, and only when you explicitly enable Vault or Note Context mode
• The plugin collects no analytics and sends no data to external servers
• Source code is open and auditable: github.com/logotipza/obsidian-ya-gpt

Development

npm run dev    # watch mode for development
npm run build  # production build

License

MIT © logotipza