# obsidian-mcp-guard

> MCP server for agent-safe Obsidian vault access with lint validation

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/obsidian-mcp-guard/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/codeafix/obsidian-mcp-guard
- repository: https://github.com/codeafix/obsidian-mcp-guard
- version: 0.1.8
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai, claude, guard, knowledge-management, llm, markdown, mcp, model-context-protocol, obsidian, write-protection
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:obsidian-mcp-guard

### Description (declared)

# obsidian-mcp-guard

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An MCP server for agent-safe Obsidian vault access. Provides read/write file tools with lint validation to prevent agents from writing malformed Obsidian markdown.

## Why this exists

Most Obsidian MCP servers give agents direct write access with no markdown validation. Those that route through the Obsidian REST API gain some input sanitisation, but none validate content against Obsidian's markdown rendering rules before writing. obsidian-mcp-guard fills this gap: all writes are validated against Obsidian's markdown rules before they touch the vault, and if the content would render incorrectly, the write is rejected with a structured error explaining exactly which rule was violated. Writes can also be constrained to a single configurable vault path, giving agents a designated space to create and manage content on behalf of the user while preventing accidental or runaway writes to other vaults on the same filesystem. Directory traversal attacks are blocked at the path resolution layer, so a misconfigured, misbehaving, or prompt-injected agent cannot escape the write vault by constructing paths like `Claude/../OtherVault/note.md`

## Features

- **Read/list/create/update/delete/move** notes via `HOST_VAULT_PATH` on the host filesystem
- **Lint validation** on all writes using [mdlint-obsidian](https://github.com/codeafix/mdlint-obsidian) — blocks writes that violate Obsidian markdown rules (unclosed wikilinks, raw HTML, standard-markdown links, etc.)
- **Write-vault isolatio…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.filesystem (1, derived)
- productivity.notes (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/obsidian-mcp-guard/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:25:55.934Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/obsidian-mcp-guard/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/obsidian-mcp-guard · ARD identifier urn:air::server:obsidian-mcp-guard