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obsidian-sync-mcp MCP Server

Give AI agents access to your Obsidian vault via local files or Self-hosted LiveSync.

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

Known issues

11 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 8.

Most discussed

Content-Type response header missing charset=utf-8 — non-ASCII content (Cyrillic, CJK) renders as mojibake in some clients

Labels: enhancement

Description

When retrieving notes containing non-ASCII characters (e.g., Cyrillic / Russian text) via the MCP HTTP Stream transport, the text may render as mojibake (garbled multibyte sequences) in HTTP clients that do not default to UTF-8 decoding. The underlying data in CouchDB is correctly stored and the E2EE decryption pipeline (HKDF v2) produces valid UTF-8 output. The issue is isolated to the HTTP response layer.

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 4 comments

"Unknown client"

After some time, I get Unknown client from the server and I need to manually setup another MCP server since it does not allow to authenticate again.

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 4 comments

Feature Request: Write Access to single folder instead of all or nothing.

Currently obsidian-sync-mcp has a all or nothing option (for write access) when you play with READ_ONLY=true or false. It would be nice if we could grant write access to a single folder (or multiple), for example MCP and have read only for the remaining folders/files.

We could add the option for MCP_INSTRUCTIONS like this but this might not be respected by all AI clients

MCP_INSTRUCTIONS: "Write, modify, or delete ONLY files within the 'MCP/' folder. Other folders are read-only for you."

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Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · external user · 3 comments

CouchDB mode: list_notes finds notes but read_note returns "Note not found" for every path

Summary

In CouchDB / Self-hosted LiveSync mode, the server builds the search index and lists notes correctly, but read_note returns Note not found for every note, including paths returned by list_notes.

This makes the MCP unusable for reliable reading or editing of an existing vault.

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · external user · 3 comments

list_notes silently omits zero-byte notes that exist in the vault

Running v0.5.5, CouchDB remote mode, obfuscation + E2EE on.

If a note has zero bytes of content, list_notes never returns it, even though it shows up in Obsidian's own file list and in vault.listNotesWithMtime().

The mechanics: main.ts only indexes a note when content is truthy (if (content) searchIndex.update(...)), so "" gets dropped. list_notes reads from the index first and the fallback to vault.listNotesWithMtime() only runs when the index is totally empty, so once anything is indexed, em

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Most recent

v0.6.4 breaks the MCP endpoint — every session dies with TypeError in @modelcontextprotocol/server installDiscoverHandler ("Connection closed" client-side)

Summary

Upgrading ghcr.io/es617/obsidian-sync-mcp from v0.6.3 to v0.6.4 makes the MCP endpoint unusable. Every client (Claude.ai / Claude iOS, reached through an OAuth-shim proxy) fails immediately with Connection closed. Rolling the image tag back to v0.6.3 — nothing else changed — fully restores it.

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-08-30 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Enable private vulnerability reporting

Hi @es617 @miltonnetofastpays ,

I have a security finding to share privately. Could you enable private vulnerability reporting on this repo?

Thanks

Read the thread · 2026-07-08 · closed · external user · 1 comment

list_notes silently omits zero-byte notes that exist in the vault

Running v0.5.5, CouchDB remote mode, obfuscation + E2EE on.

If a note has zero bytes of content, list_notes never returns it, even though it shows up in Obsidian's own file list and in vault.listNotesWithMtime().

The mechanics: main.ts only indexes a note when content is truthy (if (content) searchIndex.update(...)), so "" gets dropped. list_notes reads from the index first and the fallback to vault.listNotesWithMtime() only runs when the index is totally empty, so once anything is indexed, em

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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