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obsidian-second-brain

Item: obsidian-second-brain
Rating: 89
Author: M8ven

Persistent memory for Claude Code and 6 other CLI agents, stored as plain markdown in your Obsidian vault. Stop re-explaining your projects, decisions and people every session. 45 commands: hybrid semantic search, self-rewriting notes, key-less web research, and scheduled agents that maintain the vault while you sleep.

→ eugeniughelbur/obsidian-second-brain · listed on github_code

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// key findings

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Secret credentials may flow to a network call

7 flows detected: OBSIDIAN_EMBED_KEY, TELEGRAM_JOURNAL_BOT_TOKEN, OPENAI_API_KEY. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.

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You'll be asked for 9 credentials: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OBSIDIAN_EMBED_KEY, TELEGRAM_JOURNAL_BOT_TOKEN, OPENAI_API_KEY, XAI_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY, BRAVE_API_KEY, PERPLEXITY_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// environment variables

To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.

configCLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT

configOBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH"env": { "": "/path/to/your/vault" }

configOBSIDIAN_RECALL_ENABLED

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

configOBSIDIAN_NO_STAR_PROMPT

🔐 secretANTHROPIC_API_KEY

configOBSIDIAN_VAULT

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_DEWEIGHT

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_LOG_WEIGHT

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_ENTITY_BOOST

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_STATUS_FADE

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_LENGTHNORM

configOLLAMA_URL

configOBSIDIAN_EMBED_MODEL

configOBSIDIAN_EMBED_BACKEND

configOBSIDIAN_EMBED_URL

🔐 secretOBSIDIAN_EMBED_KEY

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_SEMANTICKnobs: =0 disables the layer entirely. The index file is large and regenerable - gitignore it.

configOBSIDIAN_RRF_SEMANTIC_WEIGHT

configOBSIDIAN_RRF_LEX_DEPTH

configOBSIDIAN_INDEX_STALE_WARN_PCT

configOBSIDIAN_SEARCH_MAX_FILES

configOBSIDIAN_ENV_FILE

configOBSIDIAN_SCAN_CACHE_CHARS

configOBSIDIAN_COMMANDS_DIR

🔐 secretTELEGRAM_JOURNAL_BOT_TOKEN

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY[platform.openai.com](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys) /podcast Whisper transcription (optional, falls back to show-notes if unset) ~$0.006/min

configVAULT_OWNER

configWHISPER_HINT

configTRANSCRIBE_BACKEND

configWHISPER_LOCAL_MODEL

configWHISPER_BIN

configVAULT_PATH

configUV_BIN

🔐 secretXAI_API_KEY[console.x.ai](https://console.x.ai) /x-read, /x-pulse, /research-deep X pulse, /youtube summary Pay-per-use, ~$0.05/call

configRETRIEVAL_EVAL_EXTERNAL_CMD

configOBSIDIAN_EMBED_EXCLUDE

🔐 secretTAVILY_API_KEY

🔐 secretBRAVE_API_KEY

🔐 secretPERPLEXITY_API_KEY[perplexity.ai/settings/api](https://perplexity.ai/settings/api) /research, /research-deep Pay-per-use, ~$0.02-$0.50/call

🔐 secretGEMINI_API_KEY

configRESEARCH_AUTOOPENAuto-open after every save. Obsidian pops open at the new note. Disable with =0 if you're running batch saves.

// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

10/10 tools missing one or more hints — obsidian_search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); obsidian_read_note (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); obsidian_save_note (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +7 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool test coverage

3/10 tools referenced in tests (30%)

Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.

Secrets stay with their owner

2 secret/sensitive values flow into network calls (OBSIDIAN_EMBED_KEY → dynamic, OBSIDIAN_EMBED_KEY → dynamic) (5 other flows matched canonical API hosts)

Audit where credentials are sent. A NOTION_TOKEN should only reach api.notion.com — never a third-party host.

Secrets not logged

2 secret values sent to console.log

Redact or omit secret values from log output.

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// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 5 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 4d5b6738d79cca0b222e7874798c039a0dfd53b3

code hash: 9d5e2dcec9253d914d5c5d4c5c785c1366616a05f63279c9c8c2f27fc92afeed

verified: 8/14/2026, 9:52:10 AM

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