base on MCP server that interacts with Obsidian via the Obsidian rest API community plugin # MCP server for Obsidian MCP server to interact with Obsidian via the Local REST API community plugin. <a href="https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/3wko1bhuek"><img width="380" height="200" src="https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/3wko1bhuek/badge" alt="server for Obsidian MCP server" /></a> ## Components ### Tools The server implements multiple tools to interact with Obsidian: - list_files_in_vault: Lists all files and directories in the root directory of your Obsidian vault - list_files_in_dir: Lists all files and directories in a specific Obsidian directory - get_file_contents: Return the content of a single file in your vault. - search: Search for documents matching a specified text query across all files in the vault - patch_content: Insert content into an existing note relative to a heading, block reference, or frontmatter field. - append_content: Append content to a new or existing file in the vault. - delete_file: Delete a file or directory from your vault. ### Example prompts Its good to first instruct Claude to use Obsidian. Then it will always call the tool. The use prompts like this: - Get the contents of the last architecture call note and summarize them - Search for all files where Azure CosmosDb is mentioned and quickly explain to me the context in which it is mentioned - Summarize the last meeting notes and put them into a new note 'summary meeting.md'. Add an introduction so that I can send it via email. ## Configuration ### Obsidian REST API Key There are two ways to configure the environment with the Obsidian REST API Key. 1. Add to server config (preferred) ```json { "mcp-obsidian": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "mcp-obsidian" ], "env": { "OBSIDIAN_API_KEY": "<your_api_key_here>", "OBSIDIAN_HOST": "<your_obsidian_host>" } } } ``` 2. Create a `.env` file in the working directory with the following required variable: ``` OBSIDIAN_API_KEY=your_api_key_here OBSIDIAN_HOST=your_obsidian_host ``` Note: You can find the key in the Obsidian plugin config. ## Quickstart ### Install #### Obsidian REST API You need the Obsidian REST API community plugin running: https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-local-rest-api Install and enable it in the settings and copy the api key. #### Claude Desktop On MacOS: `~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` On Windows: `%APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` <details> <summary>Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration</summary> ```json { "mcpServers": { "mcp-obsidian": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "<dir_to>/mcp-obsidian", "run", "mcp-obsidian" ] } } } ``` </details> <details> <summary>Published Servers Configuration</summary> ```json { "mcpServers": { "mcp-obsidian": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "mcp-obsidian" ], "env": { "OBSIDIAN_API_KEY" : "<YOUR_OBSIDIAN_API_KEY>" } } } } ``` </details> ## Development ### Building To prepare the package for distribution: 1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile: ```bash uv sync ``` ### Debugging Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the [MCP Inspector](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector). You can launch the MCP Inspector via [`npm`](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) with this command: ```bash npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/mcp-obsidian run mcp-obsidian ``` Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging. You can also watch the server logs with this command: ```bash tail -n 20 -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-mcp-obsidian.log ``` ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"13229","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"