kevcltsai

Visual Agent Map — AI skill for Claude Code

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Visual AI research for Obsidian.

How to install Visual Agent Map

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open kevcltsai/visual-agent-map and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Visual Agent Map does

Visual AI research for Obsidian. Research complex topics with Codex or Claude Code in a visual map and keep every result as editable Markdown.

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README

Visual Agent Map

[English](#english) · [繁體中文](#繁體中文)

English

Explore big questions with visual AI research in Obsidian

**Start with a question. See the pieces. Follow the ideas worth exploring.** Build a visual research map, let AIM investigate a question, or talk through a new idea in Coffee Tables. Keep what you learn in editable Markdown notes.

[**Get started**](#get-started) · [See the 0.15.0 release](https://github.com/kevcltsai/visual-agent-map/releases/tag/0.15.0) · [Installation guide](INSTALL.md)

Take a look

![Example Visual Agent Map research map with connected topic cards in Obsidian](assets/screenshots/map-overview.png)

*Example visual map; this image does not show every guided research control.*

Three ways to explore

Visual maps. Break a question into topics, research a branch with AI, and review suggestions before adding them. Manual mapping needs no AI.
AIM — Adaptive Inquiry Map. Work from your question and background toward a document with supporting sources. Follow the research in the map, build on useful earlier findings, and resume unfinished work when a step fails.
Coffee Tables. Bring an unfinished idea to simulated AI guests. Add .txt / .md background, choose a conversation style, invite guests with a question, and revisit observer insights and conversation segments.

Coffee Tables guests are simulated, not real experts; their conversations are not automatically fact-checked.

Get started

In Obsidian Desktop → Settings → Community plugins → Browse, find Visual Agent Map, then install and enable it. Requires Obsidian 1.13.7+.
Try the built-in sample or create a visual map. For AI features, install and sign in to Codex CLI or Claude Code, then check the CLI in VAM settings.
Choose Create Adaptive Inquiry Map (AIM) to try AIM. Enter your question and background, answe