
Michael Leibovich: How I Built My AI Chief of Staff
Detailed write-up by Michael Leibovich on how he used Claude Code (inside the Claude Desktop app) for implementing his own Chief of staff setup.
As someone running a very similar setup myself, I particularly liked his use-case descriptions and the insights coming out of “externalizing your thinking”. I can totally relate to that!
Also, I agree that installing Obsidian and giving Claude access to it through its REST API plugin and MCP are great for giving it a structured, extra memory layer beyond its own memory mechanism. Claude can write Obsidian-style Markdown documents directly to the file system which is faster than going through the MCP/API, but the real value is the ability to search for existing documents through MCP that allows Claude to discover notes, make cross-correlations and more.
I would add a few things from my own perspective here:
