# obsidian-remote-mcp

> MCP server for Obsidian vaults — read, write, search, graph, canvas, kanban

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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-remote-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/ykoellmann/obsidian-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/ykoellmann/obsidian-mcp
- version: 2.1.2
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:obsidian-remote-mcp

### Description (declared)

# obsidian-mcp

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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…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- productivity.notes (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/obsidian-remote-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:25:56.912Z)

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