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Obsidian MCP Server — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

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How to install Obsidian MCP Server

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-server and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Obsidian MCP Server does

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README

obsidian-mcp-server

Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian vault notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

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[![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/Version-3.6.0-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](./CHANGELOG.md) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-orange.svg?style=flat-square)](./LICENSE) [![Docker](https://img.shields.io/badge/Docker-ghcr.io-2496ED?style=flat-square&logo=docker&logoColor=white)](https://github.com/users/cyanheads/packages/container/package/obsidian-mcp-server) [![MCP SDK](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP%20SDK-^2.0.0-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) [![npm](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/obsidian-mcp-server?style=flat-square&logo=npm&logoColor=white)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/obsidian-mcp-server) [![TypeScript](https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-^7.0.2-3178C6.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) [![Bun](https://img.shields.io/badge/Bun-v1.4.0%2B-blueviolet.svg?style=flat-square)](https://bun.sh/)

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