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 109 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search.
github.com/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search (opens in a new tab)
- Productivity
- MIT
- Actively maintained
Install Obsidian Hybrid Search
Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.
Claude Desktop
{
"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-searchCursor
{
"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
{
"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.
| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH | Yes | Absolute path to the Obsidian vault to index and search. |
OBSIDIAN_PREFIX | No | Optional prefix for MCP tool names when configuring multiple vaults. |
OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS | No | Comma-separated glob patterns to exclude from indexing. |
OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE | No | Read root and nested .gitignore files when indexing; set to false, 0, or no to disable. |
OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS | No | Comma-separated patterns to re-include notes ignored only by .gitignore. |
OPENAI_API_KEYsecret | No | Optional API key for OpenAI-compatible remote embeddings; omit to use local embeddings. |
OPENAI_BASE_URL | No | Optional OpenAI-compatible API base URL for OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or similar providers. |
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | Remote embedding model name when using an OpenAI-compatible API. |
LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | Local embedding model used when no remote embedding API is configured. |
RERANKER_MODEL | No | Optional 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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What is 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 109 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search. The source code is at github.com/flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search.
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 5, 2026. The latest release is v0.16.1, published Oct 5, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.