Obsidian/Q/Does Obsidian have an official MCP or AI agent skill collection? If not, are there any community skills or MCPs that are by far more popular and recently updated than others?
Does Obsidian have an official MCP or AI agent skill collection? If not, are there any community skills or MCPs that are by far more popular and recently updated than others?
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- Agent skills (closest to “official”): Obsidian does not use the phrase “official skills” in its help site the same way, but the de facto standard pack is kepano/obsidian-skills — maintained by Steph Ango (kepano, Obsidian’s CEO). The repo describes Agent Skills for Obsidian (Markdown, Bases, JSON Canvas, CLI, Defuddle) following the Agent Skills specification, with install paths for Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, marketplace, and
npx skills. That is the dominant, company-led open-source skill collection for Obsidian-aware agents as of early 2026. - MCP: There is no first-party “Obsidian MCP” from Obsidian Ltd. bundled like vendor-official servers (compare e.g. GitHub’s official server in the MCP servers catalog). Vault access for agents is almost entirely community MCP servers, usually layered on the Local REST API community plugin or direct filesystem access.
- Community MCPs — popularity vs. recency: Nothing cleanly “wins both” today.
- Most popular by GitHub stars: MarkusPfundstein/mcp-obsidian (Python,
uvx/uv, REST API plugin; on the order of 3.3k stars). It is the default recommendation in many tutorials, but maintenance has slowed (last significant activity in mid‑2025 per the public default-branch timeline — verify before you depend on it). - Other widely used options: StevenStavrakis/obsidian-mcp (TypeScript, direct vault path; hundreds of stars, mid‑2025 last push in the public timeline) and cyanheads/obsidian-mcp-server (TypeScript, REST API bridge; ~440 stars, Oct 2025 last push).
- Smaller star count but newer commits: smith-and-web/obsidian-mcp-server had very low star count relative to the leaders as of this check, but showed 2026 activity on the default branch — useful if you prioritize fresh commits over social proof.
- Practical takeaway: For skills, start with kepano/obsidian-skills. For MCP, pick by architecture (REST API vs. filesystem), security (API key, vault path exposure), and your own audit of issues and commit dates — the highest‑star server is not automatically the most actively maintained.
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