Install Obsidian Hybrid 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": {
"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"
}
}
}
}