obsidian-mcp-seekstone

A discoverability alias for seekstone — the filesystem-direct Obsidian MCP server.

obsidian-mcp-seekstone and seekstone are the same server. This package exists so users searching npm for "obsidian mcp" can find it. The underlying code, tools, and documentation all live in shaqmughal/seekstone.

Why seekstone?

Seekstone reads your Obsidian vault directly from disk instead of routing through the Local REST API plugin. The practical difference: a search that returns ~1.75 MB / ~459,000 tokens via the REST plugin returns ~3 KB / ~800 tokens via seekstone — a ~575× reduction. No Obsidian app, no plugin, no network calls.

Install

Claude Desktop — claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "seekstone": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "obsidian-mcp-seekstone"],
      "env": { "SEEKSTONE_VAULT": "/absolute/path/to/your/vault" }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code:

claude mcp add seekstone --env SEEKSTONE_VAULT=/path/to/vault -- npx -y obsidian-mcp-seekstone

Tools

8 tools over stdio: search, read_note, list_notes, create_note, delete_note, move_note, append_note, patch_frontmatter.

Configuration

| Variable | Required | Description | |---|---|---| | SEEKSTONE_VAULT | Yes | Absolute path to your Obsidian vault. | | SEEKSTONE_LOG_LEVEL | No | error | warn | info (default) | debug. | | SEEKSTONE_WATCH_POLL | No | Set to 1 for network drives / WSL. |

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows (Node.js ≥ 22).

Source & docs

Everything is in shaqmughal/seekstone. Issues, PRs, and docs live there.

License

MIT © Shaq Mughal