Install Obsidian Semantic Search for Claude Desktop
Claude Desktop reads mcpServers from claude_desktop_config.json. Restart the app after saving.
- Open ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS, %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows, or ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on Linux.
- Paste the JSON config below.
- Replace placeholder secrets, then restart the client if it does not reload on its own.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"dalecb-obsidian-semantic-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@dalecb/obsidian-semantic-mcp@0.2.1"
],
"env": {
"OBSIDIAN_VAULT_ROOT": "",
"OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_MCP_HOME": "",
"OBSIDIAN_EMBED_MODEL": "",
"OLLAMA_BASE_URL": "",
"OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_STARTUP_INDEX": "",
"OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_ALLOW_SENSITIVE": "",
"OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_EXCLUDE": "",
"OBSIDIAN_SEMANTIC_SENSITIVE_PATHS": ""
}
}
}
}