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obsidian-mcp-server MCP Server

Read, write, search, and surgically edit Obsidian notes, tags, and frontmatter via MCP.

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Published as obsidian-mcp-server on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

32 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

bug: tool schemas declare JSON Schema draft-07 dialect — strict clients reject every tool call before it reaches the server

Server version

3.2.12 (via npx -y obsidian-mcp-server, 2026-08-15)

mcp-ts-core version

^0.11.1 (per obsidian-mcp-server@3.2.12 package.json)

Runtime

Node.js

Runtime version

Node (Homebrew, macOS arm64), launched via npx — exact version not captured

Transport

stdio

OS

macOS (Apple Silicon)

Description

Every tool this server exposes declares its inputSchema/outputSchema with "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#". Clients that strictly e

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · external user · 4 comments

All tools return "Structured content does not match tool output schema" in 3.2.x (worked in 3.1.4)

Server version

3.2.8

mcp-ts-core version

0.10.9

Runtime

Node.js

Runtime version

24.18.0

Transport

stdio

OS

Windows 11

Description

Description

After upgrading from 3.1.4 → 3.2.x, all tools fail with structured content schema validation errors. The server appears to be running and connected, but every tool call is rejected by the MCP client before returning any result.

Downgrading to 3.1.4 resolves the issue immediately.

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-06-24 · closed · external user · 3 comments

path_forbidden response shape violates tool output schema, surfaces as opaque MCP error

Server version

3.2.0

mcp-ts-core version

0.9.1

Runtime

Node.js

Runtime version

Node 22.x

Transport

stdio

OS

macOS 15.x

Description

When a write is denied by the folder-scoped permissions (OBSIDIAN_WRITE_PATHS / OBSIDIAN_READ_PATHS / OBSIDIAN_READ_ONLY), the response body returned by the server is missing fields that the tool's own output schema declares as required. The MCP runtime then rejects the response as schema-invalid, and clients see a gener

Read the thread · 2026-05-21 · open · external user · 5 comments

feat(auth): allow opt-out of per-tool scope enforcement for OIDC providers that can't inject custom scopes

Use case

Who benefits: operators self-hosting obsidian-mcp-server with HTTP transport behind a standard OIDC authorization server (Authentik, Keycloak < 26.5, Zitadel, etc.) and consuming it from MCP clients that don't allow scope customization (Claude.ai, ChatGPT, etc.).

Problem: the framework's withRequiredScopes check (@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core → dist/mcp-server/transports/auth/lib/authUtils.js) enforces per-tool scopes formatted as tool:<NAME>:<read|write> on every tool

Read the thread · 2026-05-09 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Obsidian MCP Server Initialization Timeout with Claude for Desktop

Obsidian MCP Server Initialization Timeout with Claude for Desktop

Description

The Obsidian MCP server starts successfully but consistently times out after exactly 60 seconds during the initialization phase. The initialization request never completes successfully, preventing the server from registering any tools for use with Claude for desktop.

Environment

Windows 11 Node.js v22.11.0 obsidian-mcp-server version 1.5.8 Obsidian Local REST API plugin version 3.1.0 Obsidian version 1.8.10

Read the thread · 2025-05-05 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Most recent

serializeFrontmatter: CRLF rewrites create mixed EOLs and empty-block removal strips body indentation

Two correctness problems in serializeFrontmatter on 3.5.0.

3a — CRLF frontmatter rewrites create mixed-EOL files. An effective frontmatter mutation that leaves a non-empty mapping reserializes the YAML with LF: doc.toString() emits LF and serializeFrontmatter also hard-codes LF around the fences. A CRLF note therefore ends up with an LF frontmatter block while its verbatim body stays CRLF. The block's original EOL should be applied to both the serialized YAML and the fence delimiters.

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

YAML aliases and scalar-root frontmatter cause generic -32603 failures in obsidian_manage_frontmatter / obsidian_manage_tags

In v3.5.0 the mutation helpers do not consistently handle frontmatter that cannot be mutated safely: some cases escape as exceptions instead of producing a controlled result. frontmatterParseError() reports the first doc.errors entry and non-null, non-mapping YAML roots, but neither deleteFrontmatterKey() nor mutateFrontmatterTags() calls it. In the two delete reproductions below, unresolved aliases pass parseDocument() with an empty doc.errors; deleting an anchor owner can create th

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

Silent data loss: frontmatter helpers destroy content on invalid YAML and drop non-string entries from tags arrays

Two write paths in frontmatter-ops.ts can silently destroy user content on 3.5.0.

1a — deleteFrontmatterKey can wipe the entire block when the YAML is invalid.

---
a: "unterminated
keep: yes
---
Body

Call obsidian_manage_frontmatter with operation: "delete" and key: "a". Observed: the helper returns exactly Body\n; keep: yes and the entire frontmatter block are gone, and the tool writes that changed content back. parseDocument records an entry in doc.errors and r

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

404 errors from #request print the un-doubled path, hiding the real requested URL

Companion to #121. Filing separately because it is an independent correctness bug in the error path — it would be worth fixing even if #121 were resolved, and it is what made #121 expensive to diagnose.

Verified against v3.5.0 as installed via npx.

Cause

dist/services/obsidian/obsidian-service.js:591, inside #request's exec closure:

if (!res.ok) {
    await this.#throwForStatus(res, pathAndQuery, ctx);
}

This passes pathAndQuery — the path before concatenation with

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

Trailing slash in OBSIDIAN_BASE_URL 404s every endpoint (unnormalized concatenation)

If OBSIDIAN_BASE_URL is set with a trailing slash, every endpoint 404s, because the base URL and path are concatenated without normalization.

Verified against v3.5.0 (package.json confirms the version) as installed via npx.

Cause

dist/services/obsidian/obsidian-service.js:577, inside the private #request method:

#request(ctx, pathAndQuery, init) {
    const url = `${this.#config.baseUrl}${pathAndQuery}`;

Plain template-string concatenation — no `new URL(path, bas

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · external user · 0 comments

bug: every tool's structuredContent fails strict outputSchema validation (-32602) — 3.2.8 through 3.2.12

Summary

On every version tested between 3.2.8 and 3.2.12 (current), tools return structuredContent that does not conform to their declared outputSchema. A strict MCP client — one that validates structuredContent against the tool's outputSchema per the 2025-06-18 spec — rejects every call with JSON-RPC -32602. As of 3.2.12 this affects all read tools I can exercise (get_note, list_notes, search_notes in both text and jsonlogic modes), making the server unusable from a

Read the thread · 2026-08-08 · closed · external user · 2 comments

obsidian_patch_note/obsidian_append_to_note reject valid heading-section calls with a structured-content schema error, and the edit silently doesn't apply

Both obsidian_patch_note (operation: append, section type: heading) and obsidian_append_to_note (section type: heading) fail against an existing note with an existing heading, on two separate notes:

obsidian_patch_note error:

Structured content does not match the tool's output schema: data must have required property 'path', data must have required property 'section', data must have required property 'operation', data must have required property 'previousSizeInBytes', data must have r

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-server/issues/101) · 2026-08-02 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 21 reports Pod holds for obsidian-mcp-server](/mcp/obsidian-mcp-server/issues) — of 32 qualified upstream.

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