Obsidian MCP

Give Claude Desktop access to your Obsidian vault. No plugins required.

Install the extension, and Claude can read your notes, search them, and create new ones.

Installation

Option 1: mcpb bundle (recommended)

Download obsidian-mcp.mcpb from releases and open it with Claude Desktop.

Option 2: uvx

uvx mcp-obsidian-vault

Option 3: Manual config

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-obsidian-vault"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

Tool	Description
list_vaults	List all Obsidian vaults on your machine
list_notes	List all notes in a vault
read_note	Read note contents with parsed YAML frontmatter
write_note	Create or update a note
search_notes	Full-text search across notes
open_in_obsidian	Open a note directly in Obsidian app

How It Works

No plugins required — we use Obsidian's native interfaces:

What	How
Find vaults	Read obsidian.json (Obsidian stores vault paths here)
Read/write notes	Direct filesystem access (your vault is just markdown files)
Frontmatter	YAML parsing with structured JSON output
Search	Full-text search
Open in app	Native obsidian:// URI scheme

Status

Feature	Status
Vault discovery	✅
Read/write notes	✅
Search	✅
Frontmatter parsing	✅
Open in Obsidian	✅
PyPI release	✅
mcpb bundle	✅

Security

This MCP is designed with minimal access:

• No network calls — Nothing leaves your machine
• No files outside vaults — Only accesses your Obsidian notes
• No credentials — Never touches passwords or tokens
• Open source — Audit the code yourself

See SECURITY.md for full details, or visit the Security page on our website.

Documentation

Document	What's Inside
CLAUDE.md	Development approach, current status
SECURITY.md	Security model and what we access
docs/	Architecture diagrams, roadmap

Contributing

Check the issues if you want to help.

License

MIT