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Obsidian Hybrid Search

Obsidian Hybrid Search is an MCP server that adds productivity tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval. It has 114 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search.

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Install Obsidian Hybrid Search

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "your-value",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH=your-value --env OPENAI_API_KEY=your-value --transport stdio obsidian-hybrid-search -- npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "your-value",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "openai_api_key",
      "description": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "your-value",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "${input:openai_api_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATHYesAbsolute path to the Obsidian vault to index and search.
OBSIDIAN_PREFIXNoOptional prefix for MCP tool names when configuring multiple vaults.
OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNSNoComma-separated glob patterns to exclude from indexing.
OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORENoRead applicable .gitignore files and repository info/exclude rules when indexing; set to false, 0, or no to disable both.
OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNSNoComma-separated patterns to re-include notes ignored only by Git ignore rules.
OBSIDIAN_CONTENT_IGNORE_PATTERNSNoComma-separated regex rules for note body text to leave out of search, e.g. /%%[\s\S]*?%%/g. Original files and read stay unchanged.
OPENAI_API_KEYsecretNoOptional API key for OpenAI-compatible remote embeddings; omit to use local embeddings.
OPENAI_BASE_URLNoOptional OpenAI-compatible API base URL for OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or similar providers.
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODELNoRemote embedding model name when using an OpenAI-compatible API.
LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODELNoLocal embedding model used when no remote embedding API is configured.
RERANKER_MODELNoOptional ONNX cross-encoder reranker model used when reranking is requested.

About Obsidian Hybrid Search

Your Obsidian vault already contains your best thinking. Obsidian Hybrid Search makes that thinking easier to find, reuse, and bring into AI-assisted work.

  • mcp
  • obsidian
  • search
  • semantic-search
  • sqlite
  • vector-search

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How do I install the Obsidian Hybrid Search MCP server?

Add the command npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Obsidian Hybrid Search free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Obsidian Hybrid Search actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v0.17.2, published Oct 26, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.