Summary
A deliberately small, intent-shaped surface for an assistant to operate a vault — the maintainer now offers a native plugin too.
Collapsing twenty-odd granular tools into five keeps an assistant from drowning in choices, and the workflow hints and fuzzy matching mean an agent can read a note, follow its links, and edit resilient-to-typos text without a precise tool for every micro-operation.
What it is
A server that consolidates Obsidian operations into five semantic tools, so an assistant reads, edits, and navigates a vault by intent, with contextual hints suggesting the next sensible action.
What you get
- vault handles file and folder operations — list, read, create, update, delete, search, and fragment retrieval
- edit does smart content editing with fuzzy matching, append, patch, at-line, and buffer recovery; view shows content with context and can open a note in Obsidian
- workflow returns guided next-step suggestions and system covers info, commands, and fetching web content as markdown
- Fragment retrieval returns the most relevant sections of large files to conserve the model's context
Requirements
Obsidian with the Local REST API plugin enabled and its API key, plus the Claude Desktop app; runs through npx. A read-content-only integration key limits its reach.
Setup effort
One command plus a key — npx obsidian-semantic-mcp, then supply credentials