Obsidian MCP server

This is a small helper program that connects your AI assistant to your Obsidian notes. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to find, read, or change notes in your vault, and it will do it for you. It is handy if you keep your notes, ideas, or research in Obsidian and want to work with them through chat instead of clicking around.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something about your notes, like finding a topic or adding a tag. The AI sends that request to this helper program. The helper opens your Obsidian vault folder on your computer and does the work, like reading a note, searching for a word, or updating frontmatter. Then it sends the result back, and your AI shows it to you in the chat. You never have to open Obsidian yourself.

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What you can do with it

• Read one note or many notes at once
• Create, edit, move, or delete notes
• Add or remove tags, and find notes missing a tag
• Search your whole vault for a word or phrase
• Find backlinks and broken links between notes
• Read or replace a specific section under a heading
• List files and folders, and create or rename folders

Try asking your AI

• “Find all my notes about project planning and summarize them”
• “Add the tag research to every note in my Ideas folder”
• “Which notes link to my note called Meeting Notes 2024”
• “Replace the word client with customer in all my notes”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, like a list of matching notes, a summary of what was found, or the text of a note. When it makes a change, like adding a tag or replacing text, it tells you what it did. For searches, it can show the matching lines with a bit of context around them.

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Who it's for

People who keep notes, research, or a personal knowledge base in Obsidian and want to work with it through their AI assistant.