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Obsidian Semantic Search MCP

v0.2.1

io.github.dalecb/obsidian-semantic-mcp

Read-only semantic search MCP server for Obsidian vaults using local Ollama embeddings.

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claude mcp add obsidian-semantic-mcp -e OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT=<OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT> -e OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_MCP_HOME=<OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_MCP_HOME> -e OBSIDIAN_EMBED_MODEL=<OBSIDIAN_EMBED_MODEL> -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=<OLLAMA_BASE_URL> -e OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_STARTUP_INDEX=<OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_STARTUP_INDEX> -e OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_ALLOW_SENSITIVE=<OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_ALLOW_SENSITIVE> -e OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_EXCLUDE=<OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_EXCLUDE> -e OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_SENSITIVE_PATHS=<OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_SENSITIVE_PATHS> -- npx -y @dalecb/obsidian-semantic-mcp

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

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