obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md

obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from t-rhex/obsidian-mcp-server. It costs 836 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of project instructions for an Obsidian vault MCP server. Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores linked notes in a local vault, and MCP connects that vault to an AI tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing or maintaining the server, running its tests, changing its TypeScript tools, or working with its vault, task, Git, and webhook features.
Why use it?
It documents how to build, test, configure, and understand a server with tools for notes, tasks, projects, context, agents, reviews, and usage limits.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions OpenCode.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/t-rhex/obsidian-mcp-server/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/t-rhex/obsidian-mcp-server

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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Per session 836 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 836 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00836 $0.00836
Opus 5 $0.00418 $0.00418
Sonnet 5 $0.00167 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00084 $0.00084

Measured 5d ago against content hash b6f48db8cd45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mcp-obsidian-vault

Build & Test

npm install && npm run build
npm test                    # 375 integration tests (node test/run.mjs)
npm run dev                 # tsc --watch

Architecture

27 MCP tools: 10 vault + 7 task/project + 3 context + 4 agent/review + 3 usage/timeout. TypeScript ES modules, Node ≥ 18. Ships as npx mcp-obsidian-vault.

Key deps: @modelcontextprotocol/sdk v1.x, zod v4, gray-matter.

src/index.ts          — MCP server entry, tool + prompt registration
src/tools/*.ts        — one file per tool (27 files)
src/config.ts         — env var parsing (vault, git, webhooks, folders)
src/errors.ts         — ErrorCode enum, VaultError, safeToolHandler wrapper
src/vault.ts          — filesystem ops: path safety, atomic writes, list, search
src/frontmatter.ts    — YAML frontmatter parse/serialize, tag extraction
src/git.ts            — git CLI wrapper with mutex lock
src/events.ts         — EventBus with typed task lifecycle events
src/webhooks.ts       — WebhookEmitter with HMAC-SHA256 signing
src/agent-registry.ts — agent profiles, scanning, capability matching
src/task-schema.ts    — task types, ID gen, validation, body template
src/task-dashboard.ts — scan tasks, generate DASHBOARD.md

Tool Categories

Vault (10 tools)

read_note, create_note, update_note, delete_note, search_vault, list_vault, manage_tags, daily_note, wikilinks, git_sync

Task Orchestration (7 tools)

create_task, list_tasks, claim_task, update_task, complete_task, create_project, get_project_status

Context Persistence (3 tools)

get_context, log_decision, log_discovery

Review & HITL (1 tool)

review_task — approve/reject/request_changes on tasks with review_required

Agent Management (3 tools)

register_agent, list_agents, suggest_assignee

Timeout & Usage (3 tools)

check_timeouts, log_usage, get_usage_report

Task State Machine

pending → claimed → in_progress → completed
                  → in_progress → needs_review → completed (approve)
                                               → revision_requested → in_progress (revise)
                  → in_progress → failed
blocked → pending (auto-unblock when deps complete)
completed/failed/cancelled → pending (reopen/retry)

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 89 lines · 836 tokens per session scan A b6f48db8cd45

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obsidian-mcp-server AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository t-rhex/obsidian-mcp-server (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 836 tokens to every session, about $0.0042 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.