Shilpa Mitra

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@shilpamitra

Founder/moderator of r/WebAfterAI. Writes practical AI workflows for builders.

Their Stack

28 workflows

ResearchFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian × MCPVault: The Decision Journal

Log decisions with frontmatter, let Claude update the outcome safely, and read the patterns each quarter.

Claude DesktopMCPVaultObsidian· intermediate
RAGFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian × MCPVault: The Argument Builder

Give Claude a thesis and have it assemble a sourced, ranked argument from everything you've ever written.

Claude DesktopMCPVaultObsidian· intermediate
RAGFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian × MCPVault: The Book Notes System

Dump your highlights and have Claude file the book into your second brain with connections and project-tied takeaways.

Claude DesktopMCPVaultObsidian· beginner
AutomationFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian × MCPVault: The Vault Health Check

A monthly, scheduled audit that finds orphan notes, stale info, and inconsistent tags before your vault rots.

Claude CodeMCPVaultObsidian· intermediate
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian × MCPVault: The Project Kickoff Generator

Hand Claude your goals and constraints and have it scaffold a whole project folder from what your vault already knows.

Claude DesktopMCPVaultObsidian· intermediate
CodingFreeMachine-verified

Pi: The Reusable Team Skill

Encode a multi-step task once as an Agent Skill your whole team installs.

Pi· intermediate
CodingFreeMachine-verified

Pi: The Reusable Prompt Template

Turn a prompt you retype into a permanent Pi slash command.

Pi· beginner
CodingFreeMachine-verified

Pi: The Safe Diff Reviewer

A code reviewer that reads your staged diff and structurally cannot modify it.

Pi· beginner
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Hermes Kanban: The Swarm

Fan a goal out to N parallel workers, gate a verifier on all of them, then a synthesizer on the verifier.

Hermes Agent· advanced
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Hermes Kanban: The Idempotent Nightly Review

A task that files itself onto the board every night and never double-books.

Hermes Agent· intermediate
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Hermes Kanban: The Research-to-Draft Relay

Two researchers work in parallel, then a writer's card unblocks once both finish.

Hermes Agent· intermediate
RAGFreeMachine-verified

Idea Cross-Pollinator: Find the Links You'd Never Spot

Have Claude search your whole vault and surface non-obvious connections to an idea.

Claude DesktopObsidian Local REST APImcp-obsidianObsidian· intermediate
AutomationFreeMachine-verified

Weekly Review: a Finished Review Instead of a Blank Page

Every Friday, have Claude Code turn your week's note activity into a written review.

Claude CodeObsidian· intermediate
RAGFreeMachine-verified

Research Ingestion: File a Source Into Your Knowledge Base

Paste an article or transcript into your vault and have Claude summarize, link, and flag contradictions.

Claude Desktopobsidian-mcpObsidian· beginner
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Meeting Processor: Raw Dump to Structured Note

Paste a raw meeting dump into your vault and have Claude turn it into action items, decisions, and links.

Claude Desktopobsidian-mcpObsidian· beginner
AutomationFreeMachine-verified

Morning Synthesis: a Start-of-Day Note Before Coffee

Schedule Claude Code to read your recent notes and write a daily start-of-day briefing.

Claude CodeObsidian· intermediate
CodingFreeMachine-verified

Turn a Hand-Drawn UI into Working Code with tldraw

Sketch a screen on an infinite canvas and have a vision model return a live, working version of it.

Claude Codetldraw· intermediate
AutomationFreeMachine-verified

Dedupe and Rank a Keyword List with Coreutils

Turn a messy keyword dump into a clean, frequency-ranked list using only shell builtins.

GNU Coreutils· beginner
AgentsFreeMachine-verified

Obsidian Vault as the Core of Your Agent Harness

Use an Obsidian vault as the shared memory and control surface for your agents.

Claude CodeHermes AgentObsidian· intermediate
AgentsFreeLocal hardware

Fine-Tune an Open LLM to Make It Yours

Adapt an open-weight model to your domain with a small dataset.

vLLM· advanced
Local InferenceFreeLocal hardware

Guaranteed JSON from Local LLMs with Outlines

Force valid, schema-conformant JSON out of any local model.

OllamaOutlines· intermediate
RAGFreeLocal hardware

Vectorless RAG with PageIndex

Build high-accuracy RAG without embeddings, chunking, or a vector DB.

DeepSeek V4OllamaPageIndex· intermediate
ResearchFreeVerified on a mock

Hermes + NotebookLM "Second Brain"

Pair Hermes with NotebookLM to build a self-researching, self-teaching knowledge system.

Replaces Perplexity Pro

ObsidianNotebookLMHermes Agent· advanced
Agents$5/monthLocal hardware

Self-Hosted Self-Improving Agent with Hermes

Stand up a Hermes agent that remembers and improves over time on your own VPS.

OllamaHetzner VPSHermes Agent· advanced
Local InferenceFreeLocal hardware

Run LLMs Locally to Replace ChatGPT Plus

Serve a capable open model locally with Ollama and drop the ChatGPT Plus subscription.

Replaces ChatGPT Plus

DeepSeek V4Ollama· beginner
Local InferenceFreeLocal hardware

Local Text-to-Speech that Replaces ElevenLabs

Generate natural speech locally with Piper instead of an ElevenLabs subscription.

Replaces ElevenLabs

Piper TTS· beginner
Local InferenceFreeLocal hardware

Local Voice-to-Text that Replaces WisprFlow

Run fully local dictation with whisper.cpp instead of paying for WisprFlow.

Replaces WisprFlow

whisper.cpp· intermediate
CodingFreeVerified on a mock

Persistent Memory for Codex using Obsidian

Give Codex durable, searchable long-term memory backed by an Obsidian vault.

ObsidianCodex (OpenAI)· intermediate