Connecting Obsidian Vaults that are stored in iCloud Drive to AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
obsidian-mcp is an MCP project maintained in the yanceyofficial/obsidian-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Connecting Obsidian Vaults that are stored in iCloud Drive to AI via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)”. 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.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"obsidian-mcp": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"/path/to/obsidian-mcp/build/index.js",
"/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Mobile\\ Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/<VAULT_NAME_1>",
"/Users/<USERNAME>/Library/Mobile\\ Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/<VAULT_NAME_2>"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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