Your Obsidian Vault on Your Phone, Edited by Claude Code on a Home Server: Pull-Only Sync First, Then Remote Control
- Level Intermediate
- Setup1–3 hrs (estimated)
- Evidence Some evidence
- CostNot stated in source
- No-codeNo
What they did
A developer set up Claude Code to manage his Obsidian notes from his phone. He wrote a rules note in the vault describing how notes should be organized, synced the vault to a home server with obsidian-headless (pull-only at first, checking the file count before allowing writes), and ran `claude remote-control` as a systemd service so he can give Claude Code instructions from the phone app.
How it went
dev.to post by Pavel Polivka (Oct 30, 2026): vault rules note, obsidian-headless sync pull-only first with a file-count check, claude remote-control as a systemd service, used from the phone app. Back up the vault before giving any agent write access
Worth knowing
- dev.to post by Pavel Polivka (Oct 30, 2026): vault rules note, obsidian-headless sync pull-only first with a file-count check, claude remote-control as a systemd service, used from the phone app.
- Back up the vault before giving any agent write access.
Prompt
Cleaned version rewritten from the source — not a direct quote.
Help me set up [agent] to manage my [Obsidian] notes from my phone. First, read the vault and write a rules note: folder structure, naming, tags and what you may and may not change. Then walk me through syncing the vault to [home server] in read-only mode first, and check the file count matches before we allow writes. Finally, set it up so I can send you note requests from my phone.
Recommended
Try it in Grok Bot
Grok Bot can do this too: connect your notes app and ask it to follow a rules note you write together.
- Copy the prompt (button below).
- Open Grok Bot chat and paste it. Replace any [bracketed] placeholders.
- Connect the listed tools (Obsidian) as connectors when Grok Bot asks.
- If the task repeats, ask: "Make this a daily routine."
Alternatives: the same prompt works in Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT Agent, OpenClaw.
Set it up
Tools: Obsidian · Stack: Claude Code
- Read the original source for full context.
- Connect the tools your agent needs.
- Paste the prompt and replace [bracketed] placeholders.
- Run once manually and check the output before scheduling it.
Generic suggested steps, not from the source.
Evidence
dev.to post by Pavel Polivka (Oct 30, 2026): vault rules note, obsidian-headless sync pull-only first with a file-count check, claude remote-control as a systemd service, used from the phone app. Back up the vault before giving any agent write access
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