Obsidian Turbocharged MCP Server
Model-agnostic, agent-ready Obsidian MCP server with RBAC, SLSA provenance, and native search.
Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.
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Pod has not dialled Obsidian Turbocharged yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.
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Published as obsidian-tc on npm. Runs locally.
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Reviewed GitHub reports
11 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 8.
Most discussed
bridge transport discards e.cause: a TLS trust failure is reported as "reload the plugin inside Obsidian"
Summary
createBridgeClient's doFetch catches every fetch rejection and rethrows a bare plugin_unreachable, discarding e.cause. A TLS trust failure, a connection refused, a DNS failure and an abort therefore arrive at bridgeState as one indistinguishable state, and bridge.state renders the wrong remediation for all but one of them.
In our case doctor reported the companion unreachable and told us to reload the plugin inside Obsidian, while the companion was answering the…
Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 3 comments
plane adoption: ambient model work cannot be scoped narrower than read visibility, and there is no single-pass trigger to evaluate it
We have plane.enabled: false and want to turn it on. Two things block us, and both are small. Filing together because they are the same story: a feature that is correctly opt-in has no on-ramp.
Context: this vault has a hard output firewall over two folders (personal identity/health material). It is a real constraint, not a preference, and it is why we disabled plane in the first place.
1. Ambient model work cannot be scoped narrower than read visibility
plane-wiring.ts takes a…
Read the thread · 2026-09-02 · closed · external user · 2 comments
Lean facade has no way to enumerate the catalog: 97 of 163 tools never called in 4,787 calls
The lean facade advertises three meta-tools (find_capability, describe_capability, call_capability) in place of the full catalog. find_capability is query-only: it takes a natural-language string and returns the best matches. There is no way to ask "what capabilities exist".
That is a discoverability gap rather than a bug, but I have measured what it costs, so I wanted to report it with numbers rather than as a preference.
The measurement
episode_stats on our install, over…
Read the thread · 2026-09-02 · closed · external user · 2 comments
HITL-gated note tools require elicit_token but do not advertise it, and annotate destructive: false
Summary
move_note across a folder boundary, and delete_note, both correctly refuse without a confirmation token:
Error [elicit_required]: human confirmation required
The gate itself is good and should stay. The problem is that it is undiscoverable from the advertised schema, and the schema surface is internally inconsistent about it.
Evidence
describe_capability({ name: "move_note" }) returns properties:
vault, from, to, overwrite, update_backlinks, prev_hash,…
[Read the thread](https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/issues/785) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments
### Tool errors are unactionable for programmatic callers: validation detail reaches only structuredContent
## Summary
`errorToResult` renders only the error code and message into the text content block. Everything diagnostically useful — the Zod issues naming the offending fields — is attached solely to `structuredContent`.
The server is doing the right thing by computing and attaching that detail. The problem is that at least one major client (Claude Code, current release) **discards `structuredContent` when `isError` is true** and renders the text line alone. The caller then receives:
Error…
Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments
Most recent
M4 bridge tools (list_commands/execute_command etc.) have no fallback to Local REST API's native routes — related to #154
Related to #154 (https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/issues/154). Filing as a separate issue since attempts to comment on #154 directly are erroring out on my end (MCP tool call requires approval) — please feel free to merge these into one if that's cleaner on your side.
Summary
Independent of the getPublicApi()/getAPI() integration bug in #154, list_commands / execute_command — and every other M4 bridge-domain tool — hardcode the companion plugin bridge with…
Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · 1 comment
Companion plugin never registers with current Local REST API (v4.1.3): wrong integration point (plugin.api / requestHandler.apiExtensionRouter don't exist)
Summary
The companion plugin (packages/plugin, v1.3.4/v1.3.6) never registers its bridge routes against a current install of obsidian-local-rest-api (v4.1.3, "Local REST API with MCP" by Adam Coddington — the latest release on the official repo). registerBridgeRoutes() in packages/plugin/src/main.ts returns null every time, so GET /obsidian-tc/v1/probe 404s and every server-side tool that needs the companion fails with requires_live_obsidian, even with the plugin correctly…
Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · 1 comment
OCR bridge always reports plugin_missing: CAP_IDS maps "text-extractor" to wrong plugin id "obsidian-text-extractor"
Bug
CAP_IDS in packages/plugin/src/routes.ts maps the text-extractor capability to the plugin id obsidian-text-extractor:
const CAP_IDS: Record<string, string> = {
...
"text-extractor": "obsidian-text-extractor",
...
};
But the community Text Extractor plugin's actual id is text-extractor (from its manifest.json as installed by the community store):
{ "id": "text-extractor", ... }
Impact (v1.3.6)
Both lookups that use this map fail even…
Read the thread · 2026-07-06 · closed · external user · 1 comment
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