Schema | Obsidian CLI MCP Server

Obsidian CLI MCP Server

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
`OBSIDIAN_CLI_COMMAND`	No	CLI executable name or absolute path.	obsidian
`OBSIDIAN_LOCKED_VAULT`	No	Lock server to specified vault, disallow enumerating all vaults.
`OBSIDIAN_DEFAULT_VAULT`	No	Default vault to use when tool call doesn't specify vault.
`OBSIDIAN_CLI_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	Single process execution timeout, range 1-300 seconds.	30000
`OBSIDIAN_CLI_ALLOW_UNSAFE`	No	Allow known high-impact commands.	false
`OBSIDIAN_CLI_EXTRA_COMMANDS`	No	Extra command names, comma separated; '*' allows all legal command names.
`OBSIDIAN_CLI_MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES`	No	Maximum output for a single call, up to 10 MiB.	1048576

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": true }

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
obsidian_statusA	Check whether the Obsidian CLI is reachable and return its version.
obsidian_helpA	Return official CLI help. Optionally provide a command to inspect its current parameters and flags.
obsidian_listC	List vaults, files, or folders known to Obsidian.
obsidian_read_noteC	Read a note from an Obsidian vault by vault-relative path.
obsidian_write_noteA	Create a note or append/prepend content. Existing files are overwritten only when overwrite=true.
obsidian_searchC	Search note contents and return matching files or contextual matches.
obsidian_cliA	Advanced escape hatch for official Obsidian CLI features not covered by a dedicated tool. Arguments are passed directly without a shell.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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