search
Search the vault for notes matching a natural-language query and return citable results: {results: [{id, title, url, text}]}, best first, one per note. Use this to find notes before answering from them; pass a result’s id to fetch for the full note. url is an absolute link to the note (a published https url when the vault configures one, else an obsidian:// link). Hybrid text + semantic search; only notes the caller may read appear.
| Domain | search |
| Scopes | read:notes |
| Access | read |
| Tags | read-only, domain:search, external-network |
| Profile | core, full |
Annotations
Section titled “Annotations”| Annotation | Value |
|---|---|
| Read-only | yes |
| Destructive | no |
| Idempotent | no |
| Accepts an idempotency key | no |
Idempotent is the advisory MCP idempotentHint. Destructive is also yes for a tool that
asks for confirmation only on some calls.
Confirmation (human in the loop)
Section titled “Confirmation (human in the loop)”No human confirmation is required to call this tool.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
vault |
string |
— | Vault id. May be omitted when only one vault is available. length 1–64; pattern ^[a-z0-9_-]+$ |
|
query |
string |
yes | — | length 1–2000 |
limit |
integer |
10 |
range 1–50 |
Output
Section titled “Output”| Field | Type | Always present | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
results |
object[] |
yes | — |
results[].id |
string |
yes | — |
results[].title |
string |
yes | — |
results[].url |
string |
yes | — |
results[].text |
string |
yes | — |
Related tools
Section titled “Related tools”Other tools in the search domain: query_datacore, search_and_read, search_dql, search_jsonlogic, search_omnisearch, search_regex, search_semantic, search_text, search_vault.
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