MCP Obsidian CLI MCP Server

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MCP Obsidian CLI runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 144 installs a week from npm. Last commit 5 Sep 2026.

Save chat notes from Claude Desktop to your vault — MCP on Obsidian CLI. Keep what matters.

Installs per day peak 69 · avg 16 · -33% w/w

a month agotoday

144

Installs / week

npm · mcp-obsidian-cli

Stars

7 open issues

5 Sep 2026

Last commit

1 release in 90 days

MIT

License

JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Obsidian CLI every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp-obsidian-cli -- npx -y mcp-obsidian-cli

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-obsidian-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp-obsidian-cli]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-obsidian-cli"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-cli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-obsidian-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-obsidian-cli": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-obsidian-cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: OBSIDIAN_VAULT (Target vault name. If unset or unknown, the server prompts the caller on first tool use, listing the vaults Obsidian knows about), OBSIDIAN_CLI_PATH (Path to the obsidian-cli binary. Auto-discovered on macOS; set explicitly on Linux/Windows or if the binary is non-standard), OBSIDIAN_TIMEOUT_MS (Per-command timeout in milliseconds).

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MCP Obsidian CLI — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Obsidian CLI?

MCP Obsidian CLI runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-obsidian-cli was installed 144 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Obsidian CLI?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-obsidian-cli straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Obsidian CLI?

The npm package mcp-obsidian-cli was installed 144 times in the last week. Week over week that is -33%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MCP Obsidian CLI open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 2 stars on GitHub and 7 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.