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MCP server for Obsidian
MCP server to interact with Obsidian via the Local REST API community plugin.
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Components
Tools
The server implements multiple tools to interact with Obsidian:
- list_files_in_vault: Lists all files and directories in the root directory of your Obsidian vault
- list_files_in_dir: Lists all files and directories in a specific Obsidian directory
- get_file_contents: Return the content of a single file in your vault.
- search: Search for documents matching a specified text query across all files in the vault
- patch_content: Insert content into an existing note relative to a heading, block reference, or frontmatter field.
- append_content: Append content to a new or existing file in the vault.
Example prompts
Its good to first instruct Claude to use Obsidian. Then it will always call the tool.
The use prompts like this:
- Get the contents of the last architecture call note and summarize them
- Search for all files where Azure CosmosDb is mentioned and quickly explain to me the context in which it is mentioned
- Summarize the last meeting notes and put them into a new note 'summary meeting.md'. Add an introduction so that I can send it via email.
Configuration
Obsidian REST API Key
There are two ways to configure the environment with the Obsidian REST API Key.
- Add to server config (preferred)
{
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-obsidian"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_API_KEY":"<your_api_key_here>"
}
}
- Create a
.env
file in the working directory with the following required variable:
OBSIDIAN_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
Note: You can find the key in the Obsidian plugin config.
Quickstart
Install
Obsidian REST API
You need the Obsidian REST API community plugin running: https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-local-rest-api
Install and enable it in the settings and copy the api key.
Claude Desktop
On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"<dir_to>/mcp-obsidian",
"run",
"mcp-obsidian"
]
}
}
}
</details>
<details>
<summary>Published Servers Configuration</summary>
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-obsidian": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-obsidian"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_API_KEY" : "<YOUR_OBSIDIAN_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}
</details>
Development
Building
To prepare the package for distribution:
- Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
uv sync
Debugging
Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.
You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm
with this command:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/mcp-obsidian run mcp-obsidian
Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.
You can also watch the server logs with this command:
tail -n 20 -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-mcp-obsidian.log