Obsidian AI setup guides
Shard Connector is a hosted MCP server for the Obsidian vault you sync with Obsidian Sync. Each guide walks through adding it to one AI client, with the plan you need and what to do when it doesn’t work.
- ChatGPT How to use Obsidian in ChatGPT Add your vault as a custom MCP server on chatgpt.com, then call it with @ in a Work chat. Read the guide →
- Claude How to connect Obsidian to Claude Add a custom connector once on claude.ai and use your vault on the web, in Claude Desktop and on your phone. Read the guide →
- Grok How to connect Obsidian to Grok Add your vault as a custom connector on grok.com and ask Grok about your notes. Read the guide →
- Grok Bot How to connect Obsidian to Grok Bot Ask Grok Bot to add your vault as a custom MCP server and authenticate it once. Every Bot on your account can then use it. Read the guide →
Other clients
Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Codex take a single command or install link, listed on the setup page. Any other client that supports remote MCP servers over streamable HTTP with OAuth sign-in works with the same URL.