Overview

The Allternit Vault is a self-hosted, Obsidian-compatible web application for managing Markdown knowledge bases. Point it at a folder of Markdown files and edit notes from any browser, or let Allternit agents read and write the vault through a scoped REST API.

Base URL

Local development:
Agent API base:

Authentication

The web app is protected by a single master password stored as a scrypt hash. The agent API uses scoped API keys created in Settings → API Keys.
API key scopes: read, write, search.

Endpoints

Agent API

Web app

JSON examples

List notes

Response:

Create or update a note

Response:

Search notes

Response:

Configuration

Docker environment

App-level environment

Error codes