How do I install Obsidian Hybrid Search?

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Obsidian Hybrid Search MCP Server

Name: Obsidian Hybrid Search MCP Server
Author: flowing-abyss

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

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Registryflowing-abyss

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~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "flowing-abyss-obsidian-hybrid-search": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "obsidian-hybrid-search@0.16.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH": "",
        "OBSIDIAN_PREFIX": "",
        "OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS": ".obsidian/**,templates/**,*.canvas",
        "OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE": "true",
        "OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS": "",
        "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/gte-multilingual-reranker-base"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH	Yes	Absolute path to the Obsidian vault to index and search.
OBSIDIAN_PREFIX	No	Optional prefix for MCP tool names when configuring multiple vaults.
OBSIDIAN_IGNORE_PATTERNS	No	Comma-separated glob patterns to exclude from indexing.
OBSIDIAN_RESPECT_GITIGNORE	No	Read root and nested .gitignore files when indexing; set to false, 0, or no to disable.
OBSIDIAN_INCLUDE_PATTERNS	No	Comma-separated patterns to re-include notes ignored only by .gitignore.
OPENAI_API_KEY	No	Optional API key for OpenAI-compatible remote embeddings; omit to use local embeddings. Secret.
OPENAI_BASE_URL	No	Optional OpenAI-compatible API base URL for OpenRouter, Ollama, LM Studio, or similar providers.
OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL	No	Remote embedding model name when using an OpenAI-compatible API.
LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL	No	Local embedding model used when no remote embedding API is configured.
RERANKER_MODEL	No	Optional ONNX cross-encoder reranker model used when reranking is requested.

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