Obsidian Vault
by cyanheads
Interact with your Obsidian vault for powerful note taking, file operations, and metadata management using the Obsidian
What it does
Connects AI agents to Obsidian vaults for reading, writing, and managing notes. Requires the Obsidian Local REST API plugin to be installed.
About
Obsidian Vault is a community-built MCP server published by cyanheads that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Interact with your Obsidian vault for powerful note taking, file operations, and metadata management using the Obsidian It is categorized under file systems, productivity.
How to install
You can install Obsidian Vault in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
Apache-2.0
Obsidian Vault is released under the Apache-2.0 license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Readme
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the Obsidian Vault MCP server?
- Obsidian Vault is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server profile on explainx.ai. MCP lets AI hosts (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor) call tools and resources through a standard interface; this page summarizes categories, install hints, and community ratings.
- How do MCP servers relate to agent skills?
- Skills are reusable instruction packages (often SKILL.md); MCP servers expose live capabilities. Teams frequently combine both—skills for workflows, MCP for APIs and data. See explainx.ai/skills and explainx.ai/mcp-servers for parallel directories.
- How are reviews shown for Obsidian Vault?
- This profile displays 31 aggregated ratings (sample rows for discoverability plus signed-in user reviews). Average score is about 4.5 out of 5—verify behavior in your own environment before production use.
Use Cases
Code & Document Analysis
Read, analyze, and understand files in your project
Example
Summarize README, analyze code structure, find TODO comments across codebase
Navigate large codebases 5x faster, understand projects quickly
Automated File Operations
Create, move, rename, and organize files based on natural language instructions
Example
Organize downloads by file type, rename files following convention, batch process images
Save hours on manual file organization
Content Search & Extraction
Search files for patterns, extract data, find information across directories
Example
Find all config files with API keys, extract emails from documents, search logs for errors
Find information instantly instead of manual grep/find
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Ratings
4.5★★★★★31 reviews- ★★★★★Ganesh Mohane· Dec 24, 2024
Obsidian Vault is among the better-indexed MCP projects we tried; the explainx.ai summary tracks the official description.
- ★★★★★Emma Lopez· Dec 8, 2024
Useful MCP listing: Obsidian Vault is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
- ★★★★★Emma Malhotra· Nov 27, 2024
Obsidian Vault reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
- ★★★★★Sakshi Patil· Nov 15, 2024
Obsidian Vault is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.
- ★★★★★Yash Thakker· Nov 7, 2024
We evaluated Obsidian Vault against two servers with overlapping tools; this profile had the clearer scope statement.
- ★★★★★Dhruvi Jain· Oct 26, 2024
I recommend Obsidian Vault for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
- ★★★★★Arjun Sharma· Oct 18, 2024
We wired Obsidian Vault into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
- ★★★★★Chaitanya Patil· Oct 6, 2024
Obsidian Vault has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
- ★★★★★Liam Mehta· Oct 2, 2024
Strong directory entry: Obsidian Vault surfaces stars and publisher context so we could sanity-check maintenance before adopting.
- ★★★★★Luis Liu· Sep 25, 2024
Obsidian Vault has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
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