obsidian-brain

A standalone Node MCP server that provides semantic search, knowledge graph, and vault editing over an Obsidian vault. It runs locally as a single stdio process without requiring an Obsidian plugin for core functionality.

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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.

configDATA_DIR

configEMBEDDING_MODEL

configEMBEDDING_PRESET

configEMBEDDING_PROVIDER

configHF_HOME

configKG_DATA_DIR

configKG_VAULT_PATH

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_COMMUNITY_DEBOUNCE_MS

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_CONFIG_DIR

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_DEBUG

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_LOG_FORMAT

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_LOG_LEVEL

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_MAX_CHUNK_TOKENS

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_CATCHUP

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_WATCH

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_AUTO_PULL

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_BYOM_AUTO_PULL

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_SKIP_BASELINE

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_TOOL_TIMEOUT_MS

configOBSIDIAN_BRAIN_WATCH_DEBOUNCE_MS

configOLLAMA_BASE_URL

configOLLAMA_EMBEDDING_DIM

configOLLAMA_NUM_CTX

configSKIP_PLUGIN_CHECK

configTRANSFORMERS_CACHE

configVAULT_PATH— "env": { "": "/absolute/path/to/your/vault" }

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

configXDG_DATA_HOME

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

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commit: bcc97e2406232cb552e55f5432e8b8610a811ba7

code hash: 1f4ec959108c27de45372f469c7b07c7eb68562cea819441feb14e4b393fc442

verified: 6/11/2026, 10:52:47 AM

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