read

MCP tool from Obsidian Hybrid Search by flowing-abyss

Fetch one or more notes by vault-relative path. Returns full content, title, aliases, tags, links, and backlinks. On path miss: returns found: false with top-3 fuzzy suggestions. Accepts a single path or an array. Use snippetlength to cap content size

How to use it

read is exposed by the Obsidian Hybrid Search MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the read tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Obsidian Hybrid Search

$npm install -g obsidian-hybrid-search

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Other tools in Obsidian Hybrid Search (3)

reindex

Reindex the vault or a specific file

Search the vault. Use query for text search (mode: hybrid/semantic/fulltext/title) or path for semantic similarity. Combine path with related: true for graph traversal. Pass queries[] for multi-query fan-out (parallel search, RRF merge). Supports scope, tag, limit, threshold, depth, direction, snipp

status

Show total notes, indexed count, last indexed time