Obsidian Vault MCP Server MCP Server

Name: Obsidian Vault MCP Server MCP Server
Author: io.github.OleksandrKucherenko

io.github.OleksandrKucherenko/mcp-obsidian-via-rest

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What is the Obsidian Vault MCP Server MCP server?

Access Obsidian vaults via Local REST API - read, search, and interact with notes

How to install Obsidian Vault MCP Server

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

API_KEY
required
secret
Obsidian Local REST API key
API_URLS
required
JSON array or semicolon-separated list of Obsidian REST API URLs for failover
API_HOST
Obsidian REST API host (legacy single-URL config)
API_PORT
Obsidian REST API port (legacy single-URL config)
MCP_TRANSPORTS
Enabled transports (default: stdio,http)
MCP_HTTP_PORT
HTTP transport bind port (default: 3000)
MCP_HTTP_HOST
HTTP transport bind host (default: 0.0.0.0)
MCP_HTTP_TOKEN
secret
Bearer token for HTTP transport authentication

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
        "API_URLS": "<YOUR_API_URLS>",
        "API_HOST": "<YOUR_API_HOST>",
        "API_PORT": "<YOUR_API_PORT>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORTS": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORTS>",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_PORT>",
        "MCP_HTTP_HOST": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_HOST>",
        "MCP_HTTP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
        "API_URLS": "<YOUR_API_URLS>",
        "API_HOST": "<YOUR_API_HOST>",
        "API_PORT": "<YOUR_API_PORT>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORTS": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORTS>",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_PORT>",
        "MCP_HTTP_HOST": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_HOST>",
        "MCP_HTTP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
        "API_URLS": "<YOUR_API_URLS>",
        "API_HOST": "<YOUR_API_HOST>",
        "API_PORT": "<YOUR_API_PORT>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORTS": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORTS>",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_PORT>",
        "MCP_HTTP_HOST": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_HOST>",
        "MCP_HTTP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-via-rest": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_KEY": "<YOUR_API_KEY>",
        "API_URLS": "<YOUR_API_URLS>",
        "API_HOST": "<YOUR_API_HOST>",
        "API_PORT": "<YOUR_API_PORT>",
        "MCP_TRANSPORTS": "<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORTS>",
        "MCP_HTTP_PORT": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_PORT>",
        "MCP_HTTP_HOST": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_HOST>",
        "MCP_HTTP_TOKEN": "<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add mcp-obsidian-via-rest --env API_KEY=<YOUR_API_KEY> --env API_URLS=<YOUR_API_URLS> --env API_HOST=<YOUR_API_HOST> --env API_PORT=<YOUR_API_PORT> --env MCP_TRANSPORTS=<YOUR_MCP_TRANSPORTS> --env MCP_HTTP_PORT=<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_PORT> --env MCP_HTTP_HOST=<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_HOST> --env MCP_HTTP_TOKEN=<YOUR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN> -- npx -y @oleksandrkucherenko/mcp-obsidian