# second-brain-mcp

> MCP server that turns an Obsidian vault into semantic memory for any coding agent

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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/second-brain-mcp-2/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/noesskeetit/second-brain-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/noesskeetit/second-brain-mcp
- version: 1.0.1
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, claude, mcp, memory, obsidian, rag
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:second-brain-mcp

### Description (declared)

# second-brain-mcp

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Turn your Obsidian vault into semantic memory for any MCP-capable coding agent.

> **v1.0.0 — early release.** Works end-to-end on macOS and Linux; published on PyPI on 2026-04-15. Windows is untested. Feedback, bug reports, and testing notes are very welcome — please [open an issue](https://github.com/noesskeetit/second-brain-mcp/issues) if anything misbehaves or if the docs are unclear.

**What it does.** Ships a stdio MCP server with four read-only tools
(`obsidian_overview`, `obsidian_search`, `obsidian_read`, `obsidian_backlinks`)
plus one prompt (`to_obsidian`) that drives a human-in-the-loop write
workflow. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, or any client that speaks MCP.

**What it is not.** No auto-writes — nothing is written to the vault
without an explicit `/to_obsidian` invocation. No background extraction,
no reflection or compaction loops running on your behalf. The LLM does
the extraction work when you call `/to_obsidian`, but every candidate
note requires your explicit per-note approval before it is written.
You control what enters the vault; the server only reads from it.

**How this is different from other Obsidian MCP servers.** Existing
Obsidian MCP servers (e.g. variants of `mcp-obsidian`) typically talk
to the running Obsidian app through its Local-REST plugin and expose
file-level tools — `list_files`, `get_file`, `append_to_note`, etc.
`second-brain-mcp` is offline and plugin-free: it reads the vault as
plain files from disk, builds a local s…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- productivity.notes (1, declared)
- knowledge.memory (1, declared)
- data.vector-search (1, declared)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/second-brain-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T12:21:15.373Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/second-brain-mcp-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/second-brain-mcp-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:second-brain-mcp-2