The best MCP servers for Obsidian — let AI agents search, read, link, and write notes in your local Obsidian vault.
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Universal AI bridge for Obsidian vaults using MCP. Provides safe read/write access to notes with 11 comprehensive methods for vault operations including search, batch operations, tag management, and frontmatter handling. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP-compatible AI assistant.
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Universal AI bridge for Obsidian vaults - connect any MCP-compatible assistant
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MCP server for Obsidian vaults — read, write, search, and edit notes via the Local REST API plugin.
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Design database schemas as ERDs in your browser, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs or Obsidian. Import SQL, DBML and GraphQL, export DDL and code, and let coding agents edit live over MCP.
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Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.
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Give AI agents access to your Obsidian vault via local files or Self-hosted LiveSync.
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Long-term memory for AI agents (Claude Code/Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Codex, OpenClaw) backed by a local Obsidian markdown vault. Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + ML embeddings + BGE reranker, RRF-fused), HNSW + int8 quantization, agentic RAG (HyDE + sub-question), GraphRAG-light (Louvain wikilink community detection), standalone Obsidian Bases, PDFs + Tesseract OCR. 46 tools, 19 MCP prompts, MIT, SLSA L2, zero cloud calls during serve. npx -y @oomkapwn/enquire-mcp serve --vault
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MCP server that interacts with Obsidian via the Obsidian rest API community plugin
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Model-agnostic, agent-ready Obsidian MCP server with RBAC, SLSA provenance, and native search.
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SSE-enabled MCP server for remote Obsidian vault management with 29 tools for notes, directories, frontmatter, tags, search, and link operations. Docker-ready with health monitoring.
Obsidian MCP servers connect in one of two ways: directly to the vault folder on disk, or through the Obsidian Local REST API community plugin while the app is running. Direct file access works without the app open; the plugin route respects Obsidian's own indexing and link handling.
Because a vault is plain markdown on your disk, a write-capable server can rename, move, or overwrite notes. Keep the vault under version control or a backup before you let an agent reorganize it, and start with read and search tools.
This page ranks Obsidian MCP servers by real usage across the AllMCPs directory. Choose between servers that read the vault folder directly and servers that use the Local REST API plugin.
Yes. Install an Obsidian MCP server in Claude Desktop or Claude Code and point it at your vault path or the Local REST API plugin. Claude can then search and read notes during a conversation.
The server itself runs locally, but any note content the agent reads is sent to the model provider as part of the conversation. Keep sensitive notes in a folder the server cannot access.