An MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server that gives AI assistants direct access to your Obsidian vault. Read, write, search, and navigate notes using natural language — with any MCP-compatible client.
obsidian-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the lwaetzig/obsidian-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “An MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server that gives AI assistants direct access to your Obsidian vault. Read, write, search, and navigate notes using natural language…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using node. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| obsidian_list_notes | List notes in the vault, optionally filtered to a folder. Paginated. |
| obsidian_read_note | Read the full content of a note by vault-relative path. |
| obsidian_create_note | Create a new note with optional YAML frontmatter. |
| obsidian_update_note | Overwrite an existing note's content and frontmatter. |
| obsidian_append_to_note | Append content to a note (creates it if missing). |
| obsidian_delete_note | Permanently delete a note. |
| obsidian_move_note | Move or rename a note to a new path. |
| obsidian_get_note_metadata | Read only the frontmatter and tags, without loading the body. |
| obsidian_search_notes | Full-text search across all notes (case-insensitive). |
| obsidian_search_by_tag | Find all notes with a specific tag. |
| obsidian_get_backlinks | Find all notes that [[link]] to a given note. |
| obsidian_list_folders | List folders in the vault with note counts. |
| obsidian_create_folder | Create a new folder (parents created automatically). |
{
"mcpServers": {
"obsidian": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"/absolute/path/to/obsidian-mcp/dist/index.js"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "/path/to/your/vault"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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