Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| OBSIDIAN_VAULT_NAME | No | Environment variable to select a vault by folder name when multiple vaults exist. If provided, this has priority over auto-detection. | |
| OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH | No | Environment variable with the absolute path to your vault. If provided, this has the highest priority. |
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": true
} |
| resources | {
"listChanged": true
} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| search_notes | Full-text search across all notes in the vault |
| get_note | Read the full content of a note by its path |
| list_notes | List all notes in the vault or a specific folder |
| get_daily_note | Get today's daily note or a specific date's daily note |
| search_by_frontmatter | Search notes by frontmatter property values |
| create_note | Create a new note with optional frontmatter and content |
| append_to_note | Append content to the end of an existing note |
| prepend_to_note | Prepend content to a note, after frontmatter if present |
| update_frontmatter | Update frontmatter properties of a note without changing the body content |
| create_daily_note | Create today's daily note or a note for a specific date |
| move_note | Move or rename a note to a new path |
| delete_note | Delete a note (moves to vault trash by default) |
| get_tags | List all tags used in the vault with their usage counts |
| search_by_tag | Find all notes that contain a specific tag |
| get_backlinks | Find all notes that link to a specific note |
| get_outlinks | Get all links from a specific note |
| find_orphans | Find notes that have no incoming or outgoing links |
| find_broken_links | Find all wikilinks that point to non-existent notes |
| get_graph_neighbors | Get notes within N link-hops of a given note |
| list_canvases | List all canvas files in the vault |
| read_canvas | Read and display the contents of an Obsidian canvas file |
| add_canvas_node | Add a new node to an Obsidian canvas |
| add_canvas_edge | Add an edge (connection) between two nodes in a canvas |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| tags | |
| daily |