Pai-Setup

I used Obsidian for years and loved it. Still do. It’s a great app, and if you’re using it, I’m not here to talk you out of it. But something shifted for me over the past few months as I started doing more and more of my work through my AI assistant. I found myself spending less time in Obsidian’s UI and more time just working with documents directly through Claude Code. The notes were still there, but I was reaching for them less because I was already in the terminal. ...

Just want the upgrade command? Skip to Run the Upgrade. A quick note before we get into it: this is not the official PAI upgrade path. Daniel Miessler’s recommended approach is to clone the latest release fresh, back up your ~/.claude/ directory, overwrite it with the new version, and then bring your customizations back in. That works. I’ve done it. ...

One of the neat features built into PAI is voice feedback. Your assistant can talk to you. It announces what phase it’s in, tells you when something finishes, and lets you know when it needs your attention. The way PAI ships this out of the box is through a built-in voice server that uses ElevenLabs for text-to-speech. It sounds great. But it’s designed for a setup where PAI is running locally on your Mac, and that’s not how I run mine. ...

If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ve got an AI assistant running in a VM. Maybe you’ve built the file drop tool and started exploring what it can do. At some point you’ve probably asked your assistant to build you a web page or a dashboard, and it worked, but then you had to figure out how to keep it running. Where does it serve the page? What port? And when you close the session, the server disappears and you’re setting it up again next time. ...

Prefer video? Watch this on YouTube You followed the setup guide , you’ve got your AI assistant running in a VM, and now you’re wondering: how do I actually get files in there? ...

Prefer video? Watch this on YouTube You’ve probably used Claude or ChatGPT in a browser or app. You type a message, it responds, you ask it for something, it generates documents and content for you. But then you have to download it, copy and paste it, put it where it needs to go. That’s useful, but it’s limited by how quickly you can move data back and forth between what it’s building, the notes you’re feeding it, and the places you’re testing and checking its work. ...