Show HN: Grove, an open-source MCP server to search/write to your Obsidian Vault

Category: infrastructure

Tags: obsidian, mcp-server, knowledge-management

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Grove is an open-source MCP server that provides six tools for searching and writing to an Obsidian vault from any AI client, with git-backed versioning and provenance tracking. Its hybrid search combining BM25 and vector search, along with a focus on preserving user intent versus AI-generated content, makes it a practical and thoughtful integration for knowledge management.

Target audience: knowledge workers, note-takers, AI-assisted researchers

Repository: https://github.com/jmilinovich/grove · TypeScript · MIT · 19 stars

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