MCP Connector v0.15 adds adaptive tool loading and excluded-file search filtering
MCP Connector, an Obsidian plugin bridging vaults with MCP clients, shipped v0.14 and v0.15 with adaptive tool loading to cut token usage, semantic search exclusion support, and Obsidian store review fixes.
Score breakdown
The adaptive tool loading profile cuts per-session token consumption by allowing clients to load as few as 13 of the plugin's 43 tools, while the excluded-files filter closes a gap where sensitive or irrelevant vault content could surface in semantic search results.
- 01MCP Connector is an Obsidian plugin that bridges vaults with MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) and exposes 43 tools.
- 02v0.14.0 adds a profile selector with three modes: All (43 tools), Core (13 tools), and Adaptive (Core plus tools called 3+ times).
- 03Two meta-tools — `tool_catalog` and `activate_tool` — are always active regardless of the selected profile.
MCP Connector is an Obsidian plugin that exposes tools for file management, semantic search, templates, and more to MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Cline. Its v0.14.0 release tackled a token-consumption problem: because the plugin exposes 43 tools, every client connection listed all of them in the system prompt. The new profile selector offers three modes — All (the unchanged default), Core (13 tools covering the most common operations), and Adaptive (Core plus any tool the user has called 3 or more times). Two meta-tools are always active regardless of profile: `tool_catalog`, which gives the model a full inventory with active/inactive status and call counts, and `activate_tool`, which lets the model promote a tool mid-session (taking effect on the next reconnect until MCP client-side notification support is available).
Patch releases 0.14.1 and 0.14.2 addressed two blocker errors in the Obsidian plugin store review scanner.
Patch releases 0.14.1 and 0.14.2 addressed two blocker errors in the Obsidian plugin store review scanner. Removing a redundant `existsSync` call cleared a Direct Filesystem Access warning, and replacing `eslint-disable` directives with proper typed casts resolved a policy violation flag. Additional cleanup replaced bare `setTimeout` calls with window-scoped equivalents and swapped unsafe `TFile` casts for `instanceof` guards, further reducing the warning count with no behavior changes.
Version 0.15.0, contributed by marcoaperez, makes `search_vault_smart` honor the folders listed under Files and Links > Excluded files. The exclusion filter applies to both full index rebuilds and live vault events, so excluded files are never indexed on creation or after edits. If a folder was excluded after the index was already built, stale chunks remain until a manual Rebuild is triggered, but results filter them out immediately in the meantime.
Key facts
- 01MCP Connector is an Obsidian plugin that bridges vaults with MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cline) and exposes 43 tools.
- 02v0.14.0 adds a profile selector with three modes: All (43 tools), Core (13 tools), and Adaptive (Core plus tools called 3+ times).
- 03Two meta-tools — `tool_catalog` and `activate_tool` — are always active regardless of the selected profile.
- 04v0.14.1 and v0.14.2 fixed two blocker errors in the Obsidian plugin store review scanner with no behavior changes.
- 05v0.15.0 makes `search_vault_smart` skip folders listed under Files and Links > Excluded files, filtering them from both index rebuilds and live vault events.
- 06If a folder is excluded after the index is built, stale chunks are filtered from results immediately but require a manual Rebuild to be fully purged.
- 07The excluded-files feature was contributed by marcoaperez.
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