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How Prabha's knowledge pipeline works ~/Documents/hermes-vault

The Pipeline

Drop notes in. The pipeline sorts, indexes, and surfaces what matters. Nothing fancy. Just a system that works.

📥 raw/ Daily drops, transcripts, screenshots, voice memos
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⚙️ Indexer Builds search index + stats. Run with vqi
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🔍 Query Ask Honcho for cross-domain synthesis. Run with vqq
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📊 Review Generates digest of orphans + stale notes. Run with vqr
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🧠 wiki/ Permanent distilled knowledge. MOCs link everything

Daily digest runs at 6 PM IST

Live Stats

0
Raw inbox pending
17
Wiki notes
12
Active notes
1
Daily review generated

Last digest: June 6, 2026. Next auto-run: today at 6 PM IST.

Directory Map

hermes-vault/
├── raw/ 0 files : daily drops waiting to be processed
├── processed/ distilled outputs, weekly reports
├── wiki/ 17 notes : permanent knowledge
│ └── daily-review-2026-06-06.md latest digest
├── notes/ 12 files : atomic notes + MOCs
│ └── archive/ retired originals
├── scripts/ 3 scripts : indexer, query, review
│ ├── vault-indexer.py
│ ├── vault-query.py
│ └── vault-review.py
└── .cache/ search index + metadata

Shell Aliases

Three commands run the whole system. They live in ~/.zshrc.

vqi

Re-index the vault. Updates search + stats. Run after dropping new raw files.

vqq

Query Honcho for cross-domain synthesis. Finds patterns across disconnected notes.

vqr

Generate today's digest. Shows orphans, stale notes, and vault health. Auto-saves to wiki/.

Automation

A cron job runs the digest every evening. No manual trigger needed unless you want it early.

# ~/.zshrc
alias vqi='cd ~/Documents/hermes-vault && python3 scripts/vault-indexer.py'
alias vqq='cd ~/Documents/hermes-vault && python3 scripts/vault-query.py'
alias vqr='cd ~/Documents/hermes-vault && python3 scripts/vault-review.py \
    --index --days 1 --title "Daily Vault Digest" && \
    cat wiki/daily-review-$(date +%Y-%m-%d).md'

The daily cron at 6 PM IST runs the same sequence: index : review : save. Output lands in wiki/daily-review-YYYY-MM-DD.md. Read it or ignore it : no task spam, no Todoist bridge.

Memory Layer

Honcho: localhost:8000

Every session gets stored in Honcho's RAG stack. Cross-session queries surface past decisions, preferences, and stale project threads. The vqq alias queries this for synthesis, connecting notes from different days into coherent themes.