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Obsidian Hybrid Search for Cursor

io.github.flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search

Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.

client:Cursor transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install Obsidian Hybrid Search in Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "<OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH>",
        "OBSIDIAN_PREFIX": "<OBSIDIAN_PREFIX>",
        "OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS": "<OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS>",
        "OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE": "<OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE>",
        "OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS": "<OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "<OPENAI_BASE_URL>",
        "OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "RERANKER_MODEL": "<RERANKER_MODEL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Use .cursor/mcp.json in a project root instead to scope it to that project. Cursor merges both. Cursor docs

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