Obsidian LabsObsidian Labs is an AI lab focused on the required primitives for agentic consumer tools.
Started by the founder and original architect of Obsidian, a PhD in AI from UC Berkeley, with a team of 14 award-winning AI engineers, who remains a privacy advocate today.
Projects
- LightBookContact and relationship management.
- Axios1Axiomatic AI model for relationships and permission trees.
- Cortex 2.7Private and secure knowledge organization system for persistent AI.
- Runner 3.3 ModelProprietary LLM with nuanced weighting.
- ZeroChill Workflow IntegratorDaily news and tool scraper, with built-in review, approval and measurement features.
- QuestMasterProject management for AI engineering teams.
- Meta Context ManagerContext for human relational messaging across all comms channels.
- Swarm 1.4Agentic agents working in teams.
- Agent Identity ArchitectureAlways-on agents that can complete any task from a secure position, without being blocked or requiring integrations.
- Jenneralize 2.0Synthesizes deterministic model calculations into a form LLMs can communicate.
Research
- Knowing When to Speak: Proactivity as a Priced Decision in LLM Agents↗Obsidian Labs · Google DeepMind · Draft, Aug 2026
- Who Speaks in an Agent Team? Obligations and Structural Initiative in Multi-Agent LLM Systems↗Obsidian Labs · Google DeepMind · Draft, Sep 2026
- Delegation as Initiative: Authority, Escalation and Accountability in Agent Delegation Chains↗Obsidian Labs · Draft, Jul 2026