The Obsidian MCP server that needs no plugin, no running Obsidian app — and doesn't blow your context window. Filesystem-direct: single-digit-ms
The Obsidian MCP server that needs no plugin, no running Obsidian app — and doesn't blow your context window. Filesystem-direct: single-digit-ms search, ~2 KB payloads, 17 tools. Exposed over MCP by the seekstone mcp server, that capability becomes something an assistant can invoke while it works, not something you go and do afterwards.
It reads your vault directly from disk rather than routing through the Obsidian Local REST API plugin, and holds a warm full-text index in-process. The practical difference is twofold:
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Read — The Read tool exposed by this serverWrite — The Write tool exposed by this serverYou will need one environment variable: SEEKSTONE_VAULT. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
The server ships on npm as seekstone, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the planning and project tracking group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Seekstone's toolset — Read, Write — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by GitHub Actions; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Read | The Read tool exposed by this server. |
| Write | The Write tool exposed by this server. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"seekstone": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "seekstone"],
"env": {
"SEEKSTONE_VAULT": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| SEEKSTONE_VAULT | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
Your workspace, on speaking terms with AI — search, read and write Notion pages and databases.
Issue tracking at the speed of conversation — Linear's official hosted server with OAuth and zero install.
Search and read your Drive — Docs, Sheets and files become context your assistant can actually use.
Your assistant inside the workspace — read channels, search history, post messages and tame the noise.
Metabase ships its own MCP endpoint — search your BI content, build and run queries, and save questions and dashboards without leaving the chat.
Stop letting your assistant hallucinate n8n node parameters — this server hands it the real schemas, templates and validation.