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Obsidian Brain MCP

v1.7.24

io.github.sweir1/obsidian-brain

Obsidian MCP server: semantic search, knowledge graph, and vault editing. No plugin required.

transport:stdio runtime:npm

Target client

run in your project directory

Held in this page only — never stored, logged, or sent anywhere but back to your screen.

claude mcp add obsidian-brain -e VAULT_PATH=<VAULT_PATH> -e DATA_DIR=<DATA_DIR> -e EMBEDDING_PRESET=<EMBEDDING_PRESET> -e EMBEDDING_MODEL=<EMBEDDING_MODEL> -e EMBEDDING_PROVIDER=<EMBEDDING_PROVIDER> -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=<OLLAMA_BASE_URL> -e OLLAMA_EMBEDDING_DIM=<OLLAMA_EMBEDDING_DIM> -e OLLAMA_NUM_CTX=<OLLAMA_NUM_CTX> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_AUTO_PULL=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_AUTO_PULL> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_BYOM_AUTO_PULL=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_BYOM_AUTO_PULL> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_WATCH=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_WATCH> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_CATCHUP=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_CATCHUP> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_WATCH_DEBOUNCE_MS=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_WATCH_DEBOUNCE_MS> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_COMMUNITY_DEBOUNCE_MS=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_COMMUNITY_DEBOUNCE_MS> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_TOOL_TIMEOUT_MS=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_TOOL_TIMEOUT_MS> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_MAX_CHUNK_TOKENS=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_MAX_CHUNK_TOKENS> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_CONFIG_DIR=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_CONFIG_DIR> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_DEBUG=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_DEBUG> -e OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_LOG_FORMAT=<OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_LOG_FORMAT> -- npx -y obsidian-brain

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

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