Search an Obsidian vault by tag, term and wikilink graph. Read-only, deterministic, no embeddings.
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add mcp-obsidian -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT=<OBSIDIAN_VAULT> -- mcp-obsidian
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "mcp-obsidian",
"args": [],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT": "<OBSIDIAN_VAULT>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "mcp-obsidian",
"args": [],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT": "<OBSIDIAN_VAULT>"
}
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"mcp-obsidian": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "mcp-obsidian",
"args": [],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT": "<OBSIDIAN_VAULT>"
}
}
}
}
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Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
OBSIDIAN_VAULTOptional | Absolute path to the Obsidian vault directory to index (read-only). Defaults to the current working directory. |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (CARGO, stdio) |
| First published | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Last updated | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.moreno-omar/mcp-obsidian |
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