Show HN: Grove – Open-source remote MCP server for Obsidian vaults

Category: devtools

Tags: knowledge-management, mcp-server, obsidian, ai-agents, self-hosted

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Grove is a remote MCP server that provides structured access to Obsidian vaults from any AI client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor), enabling bidirectional operations like search, read, write-back, and graph analysis while keeping data in your own git-tracked markdown files. It's interesting because it solves the 'AI amnesia' problem for personal knowledge bases by making your entire vault accessible from any device with strict validation, git versioning, and intelligent graph analysis tools.

Target audience: knowledge workers, researchers, developers, anyone using Obsidian with AI assistants

Repository: https://github.com/jmilinovich/grove · TypeScript · MIT · 8 stars

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