Obsidian Vault MCP

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add obsidian-vault-mcp -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... -- uvx zotero-obsidian-mcp

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-vault-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "zotero-obsidian-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Local Zotero, MinerU, Obsidian literature workflow with transactional Analysis notes.

Questions

Obsidian Vault MCP is a local MCP server distributed as the pypi package zotero-obsidian-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add obsidian-vault-mcp -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... -- uvx zotero-obsidian-mcp

Run: codex mcp add obsidian-vault-mcp --env OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=... -- uvx zotero-obsidian-mcp

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