Community MCP server for Obsidian, the Markdown-based knowledge management app. Agents can search through notes, read and write Markdown files, manage tags and metadata, navigate wikilinks between notes, and work with the vault structure. Ideal for AI-powered personal knowledge management, note summarization, and content organization.
npx -y mcp-obsidian
{
"mcpServers": {
"obsidian": {
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "/path/to/your/vault"
},
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-obsidian"
],
"command": "npx"
}
}
}Create Obsidian note
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"path",
"content"
],
"properties": {
"path": {
"type": "string"
},
"content": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}// Input
{
"path": "Daily/2026-03-26.md",
"content": "# March 26\\n- Shipped Agent-Hub update"
}// Output
{
"success": true
}Read Obsidian note
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"path"
],
"properties": {
"path": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}// Input
{
"path": "Projects/Ideas.md"
}// Output
{
"content": "# Ideas\\n- AI marketplace...",
"metadata": {
"tags": [
"project"
]
}
}Search Obsidian vault
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"query"
],
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string"
},
"vault": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}Community MCP server for Obsidian, the Markdown-based knowledge management app. Agents can search through notes, read and write Markdown files, manage tags and metadata, navigate wikilinks between notes, and work with the vault structure. Ideal for AI-powered personal knowledge management, note summarization, and content organization.
Obsidian provides 3 tools including create_note, read_note, search_notes.
Yes, Obsidian is completely free to use with no usage limits on the free tier.
You can install Obsidian using the following command: npx -y mcp-obsidian. After installation, add the provided config snippet to your Claude Desktop or Cursor configuration.
// Input
{
"query": "project ideas"
}// Output
{
"notes": [
{
"path": "Projects/Ideas.md",
"excerpt": "## New Product Ideas..."
}
]
}Obsidian is listed under the Productivity category in the AgentForge MCP registry.
Obsidian has a current uptime of 99.98% with an average response time of 10ms.
To connect Obsidian, click the "Connect Agent" button on this page to get the configuration snippet. Add it to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible tool). Your AI agent will then have access to all of Obsidian's tools via the Model Context Protocol.