Script 01: The 30-second federated query trace

Length: 75 seconds
Target viewer: Obsidian power user in a 2-4-person reading group or study circle
One idea: One agent question, two vaults, one answer. No exports, no uploads.


Shot list note

Screen recording: split left (user's terminal / Obsidian), right (friend's node activity indicator). Show the query fire, the mesh trace fan out, the cited answer land. No face cam needed.


Script

Time VISUAL / ON-SCREEN VOICEOVER
0:00 Terminal. Cursor blinking. "My study partner's notes are on her machine. Mine are on mine. Watch what happens when I ask one question."
0:06 Type: ask "How did we decide to prioritize the Q3 reading list?" then hit enter. "That question goes to my agent."
0:10 Screen splits: left shows local vault search hitting q3-plan.md; right shows a peer node indicator lighting up. "It searches my vault first, finds my prioritization note, then peers with her node."
0:18 Right panel: peer:anna-node → reading-group/decisions.md. A match. Both results collapse into one answer block in the terminal. "Her node returns the thread where we actually made the call. Two vaults. One answer."
0:26 Answer block on screen. Two citations visible: [local: q3-plan.md] and [anna-node: reading-group/decisions.md]. "Both sources cited. Neither of us exported a thing. Her files didn't move. Mine didn't move."
0:34 Zoom out. Show file manager: no new files, no uploads. "There's no shared cloud folder. No copy of her notes sitting on my disk. The server routed the query. It doesn't hold the content."
0:44 Text on screen: contentless CMSnotes stay homeonly answers cross the wire "That's what trip2g does. It's a gate, not a vault."
0:52 Obsidian open on both sides, both vaults look exactly as they were. "We've been rebuilding that kind of answer by hand, from three chat histories, every week. This took four seconds."
1:02 End card. trip2g logo. URL. Two lines of text. "Self-host it: one binary, MIT license. Or try the sandbox: trip2g.com."

CTA: trip2g.com (self-host or try the 100 MB sandbox)