# smart-connections-mcp MCP Server

Local semantic search over Obsidian vaults via Smart Connections embeddings. Multi-vault, private.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `smart-connections-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "smart-connections-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "smart-connections-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

5 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review. This can include external reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps.

### Most discussed

### search_notes silently falls back to keyword mode: char-based truncation (1500) can exceed bge-micro-v2's 512-token limit, crashing onnxruntime

## Summary

On a vault whose embeddings were built by Smart Connections with `TaylorAI/bge-micro-v2`, `search_notes` always falls back to keyword mode (`"mode": "keyword-fallback"`, `"warning": "semantic model unavailable..."`), while `get_similar_notes` works fine semantically (it uses the precomputed vectors). Root cause appears to be that the embedder truncates input by **characters** (1500), which can still exceed the model's **512-token** limit, crashing onnxruntime.

## Environment

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp/issues/10) · 2026-08-09 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Vault indexes 0 vectors and searches silently return nothing when smart_env.json's model_key doesn't match the .ajson embeddings

## Summary

If a vault's `.smart-env/smart_env.json` declares a different embedding model than the one the `.ajson` files were actually embedded with, v2.0.0 indexes **zero** vectors and every search silently returns no results — while still reporting `"mode": "semantic"`, so nothing indicates that semantic search isn't working at all.

`extractModelKey()` (`src/vault.ts:15-28`) trusts `smart_env.json` as the single source of truth, and every vector lookup then uses that key (`src/vault.ts:92,…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp/issues/9) · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Create npx package + default folder to Project Folder

Similar to the following other issue, please make setting vault directory optional to make things easier https://github.com/bitbonsai/mcpvault/issues/50

Bonus: please add relative path options + not needing to use `node` for the MCP commands (easier install).

[Read the thread](https://github.com/msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp/issues/5) · 2026-03-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Is this Foam-compatible?

Obsidian Smart Composer requires Obsidian to work, but MCP is more source-agnostic. Since Foam works directly with files similar to Obsidian, could this MCP work with Foam? https://github.com/foambubble/foam
Also I wonder if LogSeq and SiYuan can have similar https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan https://github.com/logseq/logseq

[Read the thread](https://github.com/msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp/issues/1) · 2025-10-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Support Smart Environment v3 layout (plugin 4.7.x): externalized mf_* vectors, no .smart-env/multi dir

Smart Connections 4.7.2 (latest, Smart Environment v3) stores embeddings in a new layout, so the vault fails to load entirely on 1.0.0 and 2.0.1:

`Vault.load()` throws:
`Missing /vault/.smart-env/multi — no embeddings generated yet?`

Actual v3 layout observed (plugin 4.7.2, TaylorAI/bge-micro-v2, ~106 notes):
```
.smart-env/smart_env.json
.smart-env/smart_sources/smart_sources.ajson   # metadata: path, blocks_data,
                                               #…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/msdanyg/smart-connections-mcp/issues/11) · 2026-09-02 · open · external user · 0 comments

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