Smart Connect Pro v2.0
Delegate changes to AI - review them before they touch your notes
Connect Pro can now turn corrections and reorganizations suggested by ChatGPT, Claude, or another connected client into reviewable changes inside Obsidian.
Instead of choosing between manual copy/paste and letting an agent edit immediately, you get a third option: let it prepare the change, inspect exactly what will happen, adjust it if needed, then Apply or Reject it yourself.
The new Connect Pro Inbox makes delegated vault work practical while keeping the final decision in Obsidian.
Let agents prepare real vault changes
Connected agents can now propose three kinds of changes without immediately editing your source notes:
- Correct a claim - replace one exact passage using supporting source evidence.
- Move an excerpt - relocate selected text, with optional revised wording at the destination.
- Move blocks - reorganize complete sections, including their child sections, in an explicit order.
Open the Inbox from the Connect Pro ribbon icon, command palette, or Connect Pro settings.
Pending proposals remain there until you decide what to do with them. Priority controls review order, while Group and Label make larger batches easier to navigate.
Inspect and refine the exact result
Corrections and excerpt moves include Changes, Before, and After views so you can inspect the resulting files before applying anything.
You can edit the proposed replacement or insertion directly in the review, change the destination of a move, or reorder selected blocks.
For structural moves, Connect Pro shows the selected content, included child sections, resulting heading placement, and exact file changes.
If the source changes while you are reviewing it, the proposal must be refreshed before it can be applied.
Stay in control: Apply, Reject, or come back later
Apply performs the reviewed change after checking the current source again.
Reject records the decision without changing the source files.
Skip leaves the proposal pending so you can return to it later.
Applied and rejected proposals remain available in History.
When an excerpt is both moved and rewritten, Connect Pro separately confirms the removal and the rewritten insertion before Apply becomes available.
Give future agents useful review history
Connect Pro now includes proposal feedback retrieval.
Connected agents can inspect previous proposals and review outcomes, including edits made during review, to better understand relevant prior decisions.
This history is evidence, not an automatic preference system. Agents should still inspect current notes and follow your current instructions before proposing another change.
Use the same Smart Tools from MCP and CLI
Local MCP makes configured Smart Tools from your running Obsidian vault available to supported desktop clients.
Smart CLI uses the same underlying Smart Tool contracts for compatible command-line workflows.
Connect Pro settings make it easier to see which capabilities are available and which connector they are enabled for.
Local MCP runs independently of the legacy Remote GPT connection, so a desktop MCP client does not require that route to be connected.
Safer when the vault changes underneath you
This release includes substantial reliability work behind the Inbox.
Connect Pro rechecks the reviewed plan against current source content before applying it, detects stale reviews, verifies written changes, and attempts conservative recovery when an application fails partway through.
If recovery cannot be completed safely, the proposal is prevented from being applied again until the affected files are inspected.
Try the propose-review-apply workflow
Connect a supported desktop client through Local MCP, refresh its available Tools, and start with one recognizable read from your vault.
Then try a small correction or move using one of the new propose_* actions.
The source note should remain unchanged until you open the Connect Pro Inbox and choose Apply.
Know what is - and is not - held for review
Inbox review applies to the dedicated proposal actions. It does not automatically intercept every Tool or native Obsidian CLI write.
Connect Pro does not currently provide automatic Undo, automatic link repair, or crash-atomic multi-file transactions.
Local MCP connects to the running vault on the same computer. The client you connect may still send returned content to its model provider.
If you used earlier experimental proposal workflows, use the current propose_correction, propose_move_excerpt, and propose_move_blocks names. Older separate contradiction, Extract, and Merge stores are not imported into the unified Inbox.
What's new at a glance
- Review AI-proposed changes in Obsidian - the new Connect Pro Inbox adds a human review step before supported delegated changes touch source notes.
- Correct exact claims with evidence - let an agent prepare a targeted replacement alongside the source evidence that motivated it.
- Move and rewrite excerpts - relocate exact text between notes or sections, with the option to refine what gets inserted at the destination.
- Reorganize complete sections - move blocks with their child sections in the exact order you approve, without silently rewriting their content or heading levels.
- Edit the proposal before applying it - refine wording, change destinations, reorder blocks, and inspect Changes / Before / After views from the same review.
- Protection against stale or unsafe applies - current source is rechecked before writing, stale plans require refresh, and unresolved recovery blocks unsafe retries.
- Agents can learn from prior reviews - proposal feedback exposes relevant applied, edited, and rejected history as evidence for better future proposals.
- Local MCP works independently of Remote GPT - use supported desktop MCP clients while the intended Obsidian vault is running, without requiring the legacy remote route.
- One Smart Tool surface across MCP and CLI - use the same configured capabilities from compatible desktop-agent and command-line workflows, with per-connector availability controls.
- A faster, cleaner review queue - ribbon access, pending-work indication, deduplication, History, Group, Label, and priority make delegated work easier to find and manage.
- Stronger failure and recovery handling - verified writes and conservative recovery make partial failures less likely to become destructive repeat attempts.