Install

Agentic Chat runs on Obsidian desktop and mobile. It is not desktop-only.

Two things get installed at different times:

• The plugin itself (this guide, up to "Manual install").
• Agent plugins — skill/MCP packages you bring into the vault (below).

From Obsidian community plugins

1. Open Obsidian settings.
2. Go to Community plugins and disable restricted mode if Obsidian asks.
3. Choose Browse and search for Agentic Chat.
4. Install and enable the plugin.

This is the recommended path for normal use because Obsidian handles updates through the community plugin directory.

Via BRAT

Use BRAT when you want pre-release builds before they reach the community directory.

1. Install and enable BRAT.
2. Add tardigrde/obsidian-agentic-chat as a beta plugin.
3. Let BRAT install or update the plugin from GitHub releases.

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest GitHub release.
2. Copy them into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/agentic-chat/.
3. Reload Obsidian.
4. Enable Agentic Chat under Settings > Community plugins.

Installing agent plugins

Agent plugins are packages (a plugin.json, optional skills/, optional mcp.json) that live inside your vault as plain files — no Node runtime, no build step. See Agent Plugins.

Open Settings → Resources and use Install plugin…. You can import from any of:

• a GitHub URL — repo shorthand (owner/repo), github.com/owner/repo tree, blob, or raw URLs, or a direct .zip / .tar.gz / .tgz archive URL (for example a release asset or codeload tarball);
• a .zip / .tar.gz archive file from disk;
• a vault folder (desktop only) containing an agent plugin package, a Claude Code / Codex / Copilot plugin, or a marketplace catalog.

Claude (plugin.json + .claude-plugin/), Copilot (.codex-plugin/), and VS Code (.plugin/) packages are converted automatically to the Agent Plugins 1.0 format: skills are copied whole, mcpServers become an mcp.json, and unsupported fields (stdio transports, headersHelper, displayName, …) are dropped with warnings you can see in the install summary. Imported MCP servers are disabled by default — enable them on the MCP tab after checking their endpoints.

Installing over an existing plugin with the same name replaces it in place (your edits to its mcp.json are preserved by MCP server id).

Use New skill… on the same tab to scaffold a single-skill package, Remove on a plugin row to delete a package and its MCP servers, and Repair built-ins to recreate the bundled builtins package if it was deleted.

See also /install-plugin chat support — Agentic Chat can walk you through fetching and authoring a package.