Obsidian MCP Server

Exposes a folder of Markdown notes (Obsidian vault or plain .md files) to LLM clients like Claude and ChatGPT via Streamable HTTP, with tools for searching, reading, writing, and managing notes directly on the filesystem.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configCAPTURE_COLLISION_BEHAVIOR— suffix suffix \ overwrite \ error — what to do if a capture's generated filename already exists.

configDAILY_NOTE_FOLDER— / DAILY_NOTE_FORMAT — Fallback for obsidian_append_daily_note only if .obsidian/daily-notes.json doesn't exist (the server reads your real Daily Notes plugin settings first).

configDAILY_NOTE_FORMAT— DAILY_NOTE_FOLDER / — Fallback for obsidian_append_daily_note only if .obsidian/daily-notes.json doesn't exist (the server reads your real Daily Notes plugin settings first).

configINBOX_FOLDER— Inbox Where new-note creation is confined to.

configMCP_PORT— MCP client --HTTP--> server.mjs (127.0.0.1:) --node:fs--> VAULT_ROOT

configMCP_URL

configVAULT_ROOT— MCP client --HTTP--> server.mjs (127.0.0.1:MCP_PORT) --node:fs-->

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commit: 45c96b275a0cc389b97073c768e3afa5a6f36fc3

code hash: be000787a006dc5e80c3dca27740c3d65085c1e76cb44bbbc357a7577e29859b

verified: 7/7/2026, 10:01:54 AM

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