Install Obsidian Brain 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": {
"sweir1-obsidian-brain": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"obsidian-brain@1.7.24"
],
"env": {
"VAULT_PATH": "",
"DATA_DIR": "",
"EMBEDDING_PRESET": "english",
"EMBEDDING_MODEL": "",
"EMBEDDING_PROVIDER": "transformers",
"OLLAMA_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:11434",
"OLLAMA_EMBEDDING_DIM": "",
"OLLAMA_NUM_CTX": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_AUTO_PULL": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_OLLAMA_BYOM_AUTO_PULL": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_WATCH": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_NO_CATCHUP": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_WATCH_DEBOUNCE_MS": "3000",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_COMMUNITY_DEBOUNCE_MS": "60000",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_TOOL_TIMEOUT_MS": "30000",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_MAX_CHUNK_TOKENS": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_CONFIG_DIR": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_DEBUG": "",
"OBSIDIAN_BRAIN_LOG_FORMAT": ""
}
}
}
}