smart-connections-mcp

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add smart-connections-mcp -e SMART_VAULT_PATH=... -- npx -y smart-connections-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": {
    "smart-connections-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "smart-connections-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SMART_VAULT_PATH": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

Local semantic search over Obsidian vaults via Smart Connections embeddings. Multi-vault, private.

Questions

smart-connections-mcp is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package smart-connections-mcp.

Run: claude mcp add smart-connections-mcp -e SMART_VAULT_PATH=... -- npx -y smart-connections-mcp

Run: codex mcp add smart-connections-mcp --env SMART_VAULT_PATH=... -- npx -y smart-connections-mcp

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