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Obsidian Get Active Note

Get the note currently open and focused in Obsidian. Returns the content, frontmatter, tags, and file stats of whatever note the user is looking at right now. Returns 404 if no file is active.

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Connect your AI assistant to Obsidian via MCP. Works with Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, and any MCP client.

Provider

This tool works seamlessly with the following service

Obsidian

Connect AI to your Obsidian vault via the Local REST API plugin. Read, write, search, and organize notes — including daily notes, tags, frontmatter, Dataview queries, graph analysis, and image reading. Images are returned as visual content AI models can see and analyze. Requires: Obsidian Local REST API plugin + mcpbundles proxy start

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Obsidian

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Connect AI to your Obsidian vault via the Local REST API plugin. Read, write, search, and organize notes — including daily notes, tags, frontmatter, Dataview queries, graph analysis, and image reading. Images are returned as visual content AI models can see and analyze. Requires: Obsidian Local REST API plugin + mcpbundles proxy start

Tool Information

Status
Active
CreatedMarch 27, 2026
UpdatedMarch 27, 2026

How to use this tool

  1. Install the MCP bundle in your AI client
  2. Connect your Obsidian account
  3. Ask your AI to use this tool
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Obsidian Get Active Note [4E2] - Obsidian • MCP Tools