Claude Code runs a home lab, logs it all to Obsidian

The workflow is built on a clear division between the AI's working memory and its long-term record. Claude Code keeps a separate 'memory' of about 60 items, but the author restricts it to pointers and cautions so it never conflicts with the notes, which hold the actual facts, history, and decisions.

Much of the system traces back to specific failures. A token printed to the terminal led to the rule about never exposing secrets; a double-imported feed that ballooned a processing queue to 220,000 items led to a check-your-sources step; a near-miss on deleting part of a key led to checking lengths. The mechanical lint layer exists because writing rules into a document did not prove they were followed.

The two-machine setup adds a discipline around git that came from collisions: changelog numbers are assigned right after a pull and pushed immediately, after two machines once picked the same number. The author's summary is that the biggest change was not the work itself but that a record of the work now always exists.