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Obsidian Turbocharged MCP Server

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Obsidian Turbocharged runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 1 931 installs a week from npm. Last commit 7 Sep 2026.

Model-agnostic, agent-ready Obsidian MCP server with RBAC, SLSA provenance, and native search.

Installs per day peak 748 · avg 103 · -81% w/w
a month agotoday
1 931
Installs / week
npm · obsidian-tc
5
Stars
1 open issues
7 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
AGPL-3.0
License
TypeScript

What the code does

We read the source, 16 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

Deletes files or strips permissions packages/reranker-local/src/model-fetch.ts:329
          `that directory ("rm -rf ${lockDir}") and retry.`,
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

Runs an external command packages/server/src/plur/local.ts:26
      execFile(
    const abs = path.join(v.root, input.path);

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Obsidian Turbocharged and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add obsidian-tc -- npx -y obsidian-tc
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-tc": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-tc"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.obsidian-tc]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "obsidian-tc"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-tc": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-tc"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-tc": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-tc"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Obsidian Turbocharged — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Obsidian Turbocharged?
Obsidian Turbocharged 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 obsidian-tc was installed 1 931 times last week.
How do I connect Obsidian Turbocharged?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls obsidian-tc straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Obsidian Turbocharged?
The npm package obsidian-tc was installed 1 931 times in the last week. Week over week that is -81%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Obsidian Turbocharged open source?
Yes — it is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 5 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.