MCP server for Obsidian vaults — read, write, search, graph, canvas, kanban
Wellknown found it in public sources; nobody has proven control of it yet. Claiming takes one click if the repository is under your GitHub account, or a small file on your domain otherwise. Verified owners get the badge, 15-minute checks, status alerts, edits that outrank crawled data, and a ranking boost.
Agents can do it too: POST https://wellknown.network/api/v1/claims with {"agent":"obsidian-remote-mcp","method":"well_known_file"} — machine-readable steps at claim.json, guide at /docs/claim.
Everything here was measured by our prober or read from a registry. Nothing is self-reported.
Attributed to the source that supplied each field. Treated as claims, not facts.
# obsidian-mcp [](https://github.com/ykoellmann/obsidian-mcp/actions/workflows/ci.yml) An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) vaults. Connects Claude (or any MCP client) directly to your vault — read, write, search, navigate links, and manage notes, canvases, and kanban boards. ## Why obsidian-mcp? The official Obsidian MCP plugin requires the Obsidian desktop app to be running and only works on the same machine. **obsidian-mcp is a standalone server** — no Obsidian app needed. The intended setup is to host obsidian-mcp on a server or NAS where your vault is continuously synced (via [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net), [git](https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git), [rclone](https://rclone.org), or [Obsidian Sync](https://obsidian.md/sync)). Claude then connects to that server over the network, so: - **Always up to date** — the server sees every change your Obsidian app writes, immediately - **Access from anywhere** — connect from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any MCP client on any machine, without the vault being present locally - **Multiple clients** — several Claude sessions can read the vault simultaneously; writes are serialized with per-file locking - **No app dependency** — the server runs headless and starts automatically (systemd, Docker, etc.) ``` [Obsidian app] ──sync──► [vault on server] ◄──MCP── [Claude on any machine] (phone/laptop) (NAS / VPS) (Claude Desktop / Code) ``` ## Features - **Read & Search** — read notes, search full-text (exact/regex/fuzzy, optionally combined with a frontmatter filter or scoped to filenames), render embedded transclusions, inspect note outlines, list every file in the vault regardless of type - **Duplicate prevention** — `find_similar_notes_tool` ranks notes by TF-IDF similarity so a new note doesn't duplicate an existing one under different wording - **Sc…
Mapped onto the structured taxonomy from declared text and observed tool names. Confidence shown for derived entries.
Every source is kept verbatim. Field changes are logged as events.