Obsidian MCP Server (tofunori/obsidian-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 52 out of 100, grade D. It declares 24 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

D
Caution
52/100

Obsidian MCP Server

Provides AI assistants with tools to manage Obsidian notes via hybrid semantic search (BM25, Voyage AI, Cohere), full CRUD, backlinks, and live indexing without restart.

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Who stands behind it

tofunori

Source: Glama

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The grade above is for the source repository. Registries can serve a different version, so we mark the ones we were not able to read.

// key findings
No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
🔐
You'll be asked for 2 credentials: VOYAGE_API_KEY, COHERE_API_KEY
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// tools this server exposes12 tools

These names and descriptions are the publisher's own, read from the source code. We print them as written. Our assessment is the findings above, not this list.

search

Recherche semantique hybride dans le vault Obsidian.

read

Lit une note avec ses metadonnees.

write

Cree ou modifie une note.

delete

Supprime une note.

move

Deplace ou renomme une note.

list

Liste les notes du vault.

backlinks

Trouve les notes qui pointent vers cette note.

similar

Trouve les notes semantiquement similaires.

refresh

Rafraichit l'index BM25 apres indexation de nouvelles notes.

index

Indexe les nouvelles notes directement depuis le serveur MCP.

clear

Vide completement la base ChromaDB et le graphe.

reload

Recharge completement tous les caches et connexions.

// 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.
🔐 secretVOYAGE_API_KEYEnvironment="=your_key"
configOBSIDIAN_VAULTEnvironment="=/path/to/vault"
🔐 secretCOHERE_API_KEYyour_key # optional
// 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

24/24 tools missing one or more hints — search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); read (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); write (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +21 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.

Destructive tools are labelled

2 tools perform destructive updates without destructiveHint — delete deletes at line 444 (note_path.unlink()); clear deletes at line 732 (graph_path.unlink())

Add destructiveHint:true to any tool whose handler calls .delete(), .upsert(), .update(), unlink, rm, DELETE, DROP, REPLACE INTO, or any operation that overwrites existing data.

Tool inputs are validated

18/24 tool handlers declare input schemas (75%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

Tool handlers catch errors

Only 7/24 tool handlers wrap calls in try/catch (29%)

Wrap each tool handler body in try/catch and return a structured error response.

License file

No license file

Add a LICENSE file (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.).

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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The findings above are the summary. The full trail, every check we ran, each deduction, the network hosts observed and the dependency advisories, goes to verified publishers, along with an alert whenever a new one lands. Verified publishers can also review each finding and dispute it in one click. Publisher corrections have sharpened several of our checks this month, because the maintainer knows the codebase better than any scanner.
// improvement guidance — verified publishers only
We have 7 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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