Obsidian MCP Server - Enhanced

What it is

An Obsidian vault server that talks to the Obsidian Local REST API plugin over HTTP. This fork adds multi-vault routing, a stateless HTTP mode for Claude.ai's remote connectors, and query tools for Dataview and the Tasks plugin.

What you get

• obsidian_read_file — a note's content and metadata, as markdown or JSON, with case-insensitive path fallback
• obsidian_update_file — append, prepend or overwrite, targeting a path, the active note, or a periodic note
• obsidian_search_replace — string or regex search and replace inside one note
• obsidian_global_search — text or regex across the vault, filtered by path and modification date, paginated
• obsidian_list_files — files and subfolders in a folder, filtered by extension or name regex, as a tree
• obsidian_manage_frontmatter — get, set or delete YAML keys without rewriting the whole file
• obsidian_manage_tags — add, remove or list tags in both frontmatter and inline content
• obsidian_delete_file — remove a file from the vault
• obsidian_dataview_query — run TABLE and LIST DQL queries against the vault
• obsidian_task_query — search tasks by status, date range and priority, in table, list or summary form

Requirements

Obsidian with the Local REST API plugin enabled, and its API key. For a single vault set OBSIDIAN_API_KEY and OBSIDIAN_BASE_URL; for several, pass a JSON array in OBSIDIAN_VAULTS with an id, apiKey and baseUrl per vault. Remote access through Claude.ai also needs MCP_AUTH_KEY. Runs over stdio or HTTP; set MCP_HTTP_STATELESS to true for Claude.ai compatibility.

Setup effort

Build from source — git clone https://github.com/BoweyLou/obsidian-mcp-server-enhanced.git

Tools you get

15 tools named in the project's documentation. Five tools are this fork's additions: periodic notes, block references, graph analysis, templates and smart linking. search, fetch, create_note and similar names are HTTP actions for ChatGPT, not MCP tools.

Requires

OBSIDIAN_API_KEY in your environment