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Obsidian MCP Server for Gemini CLI

io.github.maxkuminov/obsidian-mcp

Self-hosted agent memory in an Obsidian vault: hybrid search, link graph, tasks, safe writes, OAuth

client:Gemini CLI transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Obsidian MCP Server in Gemini CLI

~/.gemini/settings.json · windows: %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/maxkuminov/obsidian-mcp:v1.5.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DATABASE_URL": "<DATABASE_URL>",
        "VAULT_PATH": "<VAULT_PATH>",
        "SECRET_KEY": "<SECRET_KEY>",
        "MCP_HOSTNAME": "<MCP_HOSTNAME>",
        "EMBEDDING_PROVIDER": "<EMBEDDING_PROVIDER>",
        "OLLAMA_URL": "<OLLAMA_URL>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "TEI_URL": "<TEI_URL>",
        "TEI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "<TEI_EMBEDDING_MODEL>",
        "TEI_EMBED_BATCH_SIZE": "<TEI_EMBED_BATCH_SIZE>",
        "TEI_API_KEY": "<TEI_API_KEY>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Gemini expands $VAR and ${VAR} inside env values, so a secret can live in your shell rather than this file. Gemini CLI docs

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