smart connections mcp for VS Code
io.github.msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp
Local semantic search over Obsidian vaults via Smart Connections embeddings. Multi-vault, private.
client:VS Code
transport:stdio
runtime:npm
Install smart connections mcp in VS Code
.vscode/mcp.json
{
"inputs": [
{
"type": "promptString",
"id": "smart-vault-path",
"description": "SMART_VAULT_PATH",
"password": true
}
],
"servers": {
"smart-connections-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"smart-connections-mcp"
],
"env": {
"SMART_VAULT_PATH": "${input:smart-vault-path}"
}
}
}
}VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs