kObsidian
About
Filesystem-first MCP for Obsidian — an LLM-maintained wiki inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki.
Use this server
Add it to your MCP client. The catalogue lists this config verbatim from its source — it does not run, download, or vouch for the server. Review the command before you run it.
Transportstdio (runs a local command)
Env vars
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH OBSIDIAN_API_URL OBSIDIAN_API_VERIFY_TLS OBSIDIAN_REST_API_KEYClaude Code
claude mcp add --env OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH= --env OBSIDIAN_API_URL= --env OBSIDIAN_API_VERIFY_TLS= --env OBSIDIAN_REST_API_KEY= kobsidian-mcp -- npx kobsidian-mcp
Cursor
If the button doesn't open Cursor, use the JSON below — Cursor accepts the same mcpServers config.
VS Code
code --add-mcp '{"name":"kobsidian-mcp","command":"npx","args":["kobsidian-mcp"],"env":{"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH":"","OBSIDIAN_API_URL":"","OBSIDIAN_API_VERIFY_TLS":"","OBSIDIAN_REST_API_KEY":""}}'
JSON
{
"mcpServers": {
"kobsidian-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"kobsidian-mcp"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "",
"OBSIDIAN_API_URL": "",
"OBSIDIAN_API_VERIFY_TLS": "",
"OBSIDIAN_REST_API_KEY": ""
}
}
}
}
Environment variables are listed by name only — fill in your own values. Entries never carry secrets.