Obsidian MCP Server

Read a canvas file and return a human-readable summary of its nodes, edges, and groups.

List all .canvas files in the vault or in a specific folder.

Add a text card to a canvas file.

Create a new group/area in a canvas file.

Connect two nodes with a directional arrow. Rejects if it would create a cycle.

Update the text and/or color of an existing card.

Delete a card and all its connected edges from a canvas.

Reposition a node by setting its absolute x/y coordinates.

Delete a group/area from a canvas.

Delete a connection between two nodes.

Get a board overview: task counts by state, groups, total tasks.

Show details for a specific task: state, group, description, dependencies.

List tasks that are ready to start (red/To Do with all dependencies met).

List tasks that are blocked and what is blocking them.

Start a task: red (To Do) → orange (Doing). Validates dependencies are met.

Finish a task: orange (Doing) → cyan (Review).

Pause a task: orange (Doing) → red (To Do).

Approve a proposed task: purple (Proposed) → red (To Do). RELAXED mode only.

Mark a task as done: cyan (Review) → green (Done). RELAXED mode only.

Update a task's description body. Task must be orange (or cyan in RELAXED mode).

Add a dependency: from_task blocks to_task. Rejects cycles.

Propose a new task (creates purple card). Auto-assigns the next task ID.

Add a new group/phase to the project canvas.

Initialize a new project canvas with groups, legend, and optional tasks.

List skills available in the vault.

Read a specific vault skill file.

Read global vault agent rules.

Register a new global vault rule. Destructive: requires confirm=True.

Lint a note against vault rules without writing it.

Invalidate and refresh the in-memory skill cache.

Generate a new vault skill with a consistent structure.

Analyze the vault and suggest useful personal skills.

Validate skills and optionally apply automatic fixes.

Generate vault statistics.

Read the canonical tag registry.

Analyze tag usage in the vault.

Sync vault tag usage with the canonical tag registry.

List all tags currently used in the vault.

Analyze internal links in the vault.

Run vault rules across every note and report violations.

Find every wikilink in the vault whose target note doesn't exist.

Summarize recent vault activity.

Read the vault structure, templates, and common metadata.

Validate the active vault and MCP profile configuration.

Diagnose vault setup issues and return actionable recommendations.

List filesystem roots advertised by the connected MCP client.

Recommend prompts, skills, resources, and tools for a task.

List available note templates.

Suggest candidate vault folders for a new note.

Create a new Markdown note in the vault.

Append, prepend, or insert content into a section of a note.

Delete a note from the vault. Destructive: requires confirm=True.

Patch a note with atomic exact-match replacements.

Overwrite the full content of a note. Destructive: requires confirm=True.

Preview a literal search/replace across notes without writing files.

Apply a literal search/replace across notes. Destructive: requires confirm=True.

Capture an inbox note in the personal vault profile.

Return only a note frontmatter block as JSON.

Update a note frontmatter without changing the note body.

Add, remove, or set YAML tags on a note.

List notes that link to the given note.

List notes that contain a specific tag.

Read incoming and outgoing links around a note.

Find notes without incoming or outgoing wikilinks.

List Markdown notes in the vault or in a specific folder.

Read the full content of a note.

Search note titles or note content with AND semantics.

Search notes modified in a date range.

Move or rename a note inside the vault.

Rename a note in place, optionally rewriting every wikilink to it.

Return a random concept from the vault as a surprise flashcard.

Read the content and frontmatter of multiple notes.

Return metadata for multiple notes without loading all content.

Inspect local ObsidianRAG setup status.

Check whether the ObsidianRAG backend is reachable and ready.

Ask a natural-language question against the Obsidian vault via ObsidianRAG.

Rebuild the ObsidianRAG index after large vault changes.

Run a semantic vault question through the legacy local RAG stack.

Update the legacy semantic index for the vault.

Find semantically similar notes that are not linked together.

Fetch a YouTube transcript by URL or video ID.