Obsidian Local REST API

The connected obsidian MCP server exposes only a subset of the Obsidian Local REST API (plugin obsidian-local-rest-api). This skill provides the full API surface plus an authenticated request wrapper, so a missing MCP method is called over HTTP instead of being worked around with hacks (e.g. delete+recreate to rename a note).

When to Use This Skill

Use the mcp__obsidian__* tools first for read, append, patch, delete, and search. Fall back to this skill only for operations that have no MCP tool: