Obsidian MCP Server for VS Code
io.github.maxkuminov/obsidian-mcp
Self-hosted agent memory in an Obsidian vault: hybrid search, link graph, tasks, safe writes, OAuth
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:oci
Install Obsidian MCP Server in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "database-url",
"description": "DATABASE_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "vault-path",
"description": "VAULT_PATH",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "secret-key",
"description": "SECRET_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "mcp-hostname",
"description": "MCP_HOSTNAME",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "embedding-provider",
"description": "EMBEDDING_PROVIDER",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "ollama-url",
"description": "OLLAMA_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "openai-api-key",
"description": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tei-url",
"description": "TEI_URL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tei-embedding-model",
"description": "TEI_EMBEDDING_MODEL",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tei-embed-batch-size",
"description": "TEI_EMBED_BATCH_SIZE",
"password": true
},
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "tei-api-key",
"description": "TEI_API_KEY",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"obsidian-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"ghcr.io/maxkuminov/obsidian-mcp:v1.5.0"
],
"env": {
"DATABASE_URL": "${input:database-url}",
"VAULT_PATH": "${input:vault-path}",
"SECRET_KEY": "${input:secret-key}",
"MCP_HOSTNAME": "${input:mcp-hostname}",
"EMBEDDING_PROVIDER": "${input:embedding-provider}",
"OLLAMA_URL": "${input:ollama-url}",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "${input:openai-api-key}",
"TEI_URL": "${input:tei-url}",
"TEI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "${input:tei-embedding-model}",
"TEI_EMBED_BATCH_SIZE": "${input:tei-embed-batch-size}",
"TEI_API_KEY": "${input:tei-api-key}"
}
}
}
}
VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs