folder
string
How to use it
folder is exposed by the Obsidian MCP Rs MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the folder tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.
Install Obsidian MCP Rs
npx obsidian-mcp-rs installOther tools in Obsidian MCP Rs (39)
string
Add tags to notes in frontmatter and/or content.
boolean
string
Create a new directory in the vault.
Create a new note with Markdown content.
string
Delete a note from the vault.
Edit an existing note.
string
string[]
object
string
number
string
number
Move or rename a note within the vault.
string
string
boolean
number
string
string
string
Today's daily note, and its weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly siblings — read from Obsidian's own settings (the Periodic Notes plugin's data.json, then core's daily-notes.json, then Obsidian's defaults), so it lands where Obsidian would rather than creating a stray note.
string
string
Read the content of an existing note.
boolean
boolean
string
Search notes by content, filename, or tag. Results are BM25-ranked, best-first, and paged.
string
string[]
any
string
What's actually in this vault — the questions you ask before you know what to search for.
string
The vault's link graph, in one parallel pass.