Obsidian Vault MCP Server

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add mcp-obsidian-via-rest -e API_KEY=... -e API_URLS=... -e API_HOST=... -e API_PORT=... -- npx -y @oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "...",
        "API_URLS": "...",
        "API_HOST": "...",
        "API_PORT": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Access Obsidian vaults via Local REST API - read, search, and interact with notes

Questions

Obsidian Vault MCP Server is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian.

Run: claude mcp add mcp-obsidian-via-rest -e API_KEY=... -e API_URLS=... -e API_HOST=... -e API_PORT=... -- npx -y @oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian

Run: codex mcp add mcp-obsidian-via-rest --env API_KEY=... --env API_URLS=... --env API_HOST=... --env API_PORT=... -- npx -y @oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian

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