Obsidian Hybrid Search

io.github.flowing-abyss/obsidian-hybrid-search·v0.13.8·Search

Search Obsidian vaults with hybrid full-text, fuzzy, semantic, and graph retrieval.

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Environment variables

OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH

required

Absolute path to the Obsidian vault to index and search.

OBSIDIAN_PREFIX

Optional prefix for MCP tool names when configuring multiple vaults.

OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS

Comma-separated glob patterns to exclude from indexing.

OPENAI_API_KEY

secret

Optional API key for OpenAI-compatible remote embeddings; omit to use local embeddings.

OPENAI_BASE_URL

Optional OpenAI-compatible API base URL for OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or similar providers.

OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL

Remote embedding model name when using an OpenAI-compatible API.

LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL

Local embedding model used when no remote embedding API is configured.

RERANKER_MODEL

Optional ONNX cross-encoder reranker model used when reranking is requested.

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Install

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "<obsidian_vault_path>",
        "OBSIDIAN_PREFIX": "<obsidian_prefix>",
        "OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS": ".obsidian/**,templates/**,*.canvas",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<your-openai_api_key>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
        "OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "text-embedding-3-small",
        "LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "Xenova/multilingual-e5-small",
        "RERANKER_MODEL": "onnx-community/bge-reranker-v2-m3-ONNX"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "<obsidian_vault_path>",
        "OBSIDIAN_PREFIX": "<obsidian_prefix>",
        "OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS": ".obsidian/**,templates/**,*.canvas",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<your-openai_api_key>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "https://api.openai.com/v1",
        "OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "text-embedding-3-small",
        "LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL": "Xenova/multilingual-e5-small",
        "RERANKER_MODEL": "onnx-community/bge-reranker-v2-m3-ONNX"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline (cline_mcp_settings.json)

npx -y obsidian-hybrid-search

Verdict API

curl -s mcpindex.ai/api/v1/trust/server/io-github-flowing-abyss-obsidian-hybrid-search

Free-tier verdict as JSON: decision + dimensions + severity. Call it from your agent before it invokes a tool it just discovered.

Details

version: v0.13.8
category: Search
quality: 90 / 100
operator: flowing-abyss

Provenance

Verdict history is anchored to Bitcoin via OpenTimestamps. The free tier returns the current verdict only; the anchored record is served on the authenticated tier.

Links

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