"A tool for searching local files" matching MCP servers:

A Model Context Protocol server that provides a scratchpad tool for LLMs to organize thoughts, take notes, and plan approaches to complex problems.

Enables natural-language semantic search over your own local files through an MCP server, fully offline without API keys or a server daemon, with optional LLM-grounded answers and exact file:line sources.

Enables AI assistants to read, search, and fully manage a Zotero library locally—organizing collections, editing items, uploading files, and managing notes, tags, and trash—through the local Zotero API without cloud sync.

A bridge server that allows LLM tools to interact with an Obsidian vault through a local REST API, enabling file operations, note management, and metadata access through natural language.

Enables sandbox-less frontends such as mobile apps to reach the WeRead official gateway over Streamable HTTP by supplying only a URL and an access token, with no local process required. Exposes 14 read-only tools covering search, shelf, notebooks, reading progress and statistics, highlights, public reviews, and recommendations, plus a token-protected dashboard for shelf, notes, and shared-reading annotations.

A local MCP server that wraps the Obsidian CLI to give AI assistants direct access to read, edit, and manage notes within an Obsidian vault. It enables advanced operations such as frontmatter property management, context-aware searching, and the execution of internal Obsidian commands.

Exposes a local Obsidian vault as a stateless MCP server, letting AI coding agents search, read, browse, and edit notes in real time.

A pure-local Microsoft OneNote MCP server for Windows that controls the OneNote desktop app through the local OneNote COM API without needing Azure, Microsoft Graph, API keys, or OAuth.

Built-in MCP server that gives AI agents direct access to an Obsidian vault for reading, writing, searching notes, and executing commands.

A local MCP server that enables AI applications like Claude Desktop to securely access and work with Obsidian vaults, providing capabilities for reading notes, executing templates, and performing semantic searches.

Enables fast local hybrid search over a folder of markdown files via MCP, combining BM25 and vector similarity with explicit relevance verdicts and no LLM or network calls at query time.

A local knowledge base MCP server that enables retrieval and evidence-based Q&A over Obsidian Markdown notes, with high-recall embedding search, chunked indexing, hybrid retrieval, and three STDIO MCP tools for agent-driven recollection and quality-gated recall.

Enables users to index local Markdown articles and then search, filter, list, and retrieve them through MCP tools while keeping all content on the local machine.

Enables AI agents to create and interact with ASCII-based Zen gardens through tools for raking sand, placing stones, and practicing digital meditation. It provides resources for random Zen koans and generates meditation guides based on the current garden state.

MCP server for Obsidian vaults, optimised for Cursor agents — safe note editing, lean tool surface, direct filesystem access.

Enables AI clients to read Markdown notes from a single explicitly granted local folder, read-only, with strict containment against access outside that folder.

MCP server that integrates with LM Studio to provide a search_notes tool, allowing the chat model to retrieve and answer from a local Obsidian vault.

An MCP server that gives AI models a persistent notebook backed by a folder of Markdown files, with tools to discover, read, write, edit, and delete notes.

Enables reading, writing, and manipulation of Bike outlines on macOS through natural language, using AppleScript for local document management.

Enables interaction with Cubox through its CLI, allowing agents to manage bookmarks, highlights, and annotations via a single pass-through tool.

Long-term memory for Claude Desktop and Claude Code over plain markdown files on your machine. It returns nothing when the corpus has no answer, naming the terms that appear nowhere — no least-bad match dressed as an answer. And it verifies cited commit SHAs against git, so an agent can tell what actually shipped from what was only discussed and abandoned. Local; nothing is transmitted.

An MCP server for managing contextual data as markdown files with metadata, enabling agents to save, retrieve, search, and delete contexts using simple CRUD operations.

Open-source mind maps and whiteboard your agent draws on live: 22 tools for mind maps, notes, shapes, tables, charts, connectors, comments and HTML/PDF export; boards are local files.

Provides an AI agent with a searchable markdown notes vault, offering tools to create, read, list, search, update, and delete notes stored as plain .md files.

Provides read-only access to a local Obsidian vault with zero-trust security, enabling note reading, listing, and text search via Claude.

Enables AI agents to search, read, annotate, and manage a local Zotero library via the Model Context Protocol, with full local storage and no cloud dependency.

Provides full access to Hookmark on macOS, enabling users to create and manage bidirectional links between files, URLs, emails, and notes. It supports searching bookmarks, connecting items, and retrieving links from active applications through natural language.

Read-only MCP server for Griasa, a local-first macOS app that records meetings on your Mac: open promises with the exact quote, people, projects, meeting search, transcripts on request and the next call's brief. Runs inside the app; one-click Claude Desktop extension.

Enables AI clients to search, read, and navigate a local Obsidian vault privately, with read-only tools for discovery, evidence reading, backlinks, and vault statistics.

Enables saving X (Twitter) Articles as Obsidian-faithful Markdown files with locally downloaded images and videos.