Obsidian Hybrid Search
local MCP serverInstallation
Terminal
claude mcp add obsidian-hybrid-search -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... -e OBSIDIAN_PREFIX=... -e OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS=... -e OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE=... -e OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e OPENAI_BASE_URL=... -e OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e RERANKER_MODEL=... -- npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search
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": {
"obsidian-hybrid-search": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"obsidian-hybrid-search"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "...",
"OBSIDIAN_PREFIX": "...",
"OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS": "...",
"OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE": "...",
"OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS": "...",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "...",
"OPENAI_BASE_URL": "...",
"OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "...",
"LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "...",
"RERANKER_MODEL": "..."
}
}
}
}Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.
Summary
Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.
Questions
Obsidian Hybrid Search is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package obsidian-hybrid-search.
Run: claude mcp add obsidian-hybrid-search -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... -e OBSIDIAN_PREFIX=... -e OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS=... -e OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE=... -e OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e OPENAI_BASE_URL=... -e OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... -e RERANKER_MODEL=... -- npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search
Run: codex mcp add obsidian-hybrid-search --env OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... --env OBSIDIAN_PREFIX=... --env OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS=... --env OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE=... --env OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS=... --env OPENAI_API_KEY=... --env OPENAI_BASE_URL=... --env OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... --env LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL=... --env RERANKER_MODEL=... -- npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search
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