Connect Pro for Obsidian (Smart Plugins)

Why it got a C

A paid add-on from Smart Plugins, the makers of the Smart Connections plugin for Obsidian. While Obsidian Desktop is open, it lets an AI app read notes in your vault, run Smart Lookup (search by meaning), read Smart Contexts and propose changes. Proposals (a correction, a moved passage or block, a set of related edits, a note merge) wait in a Smart Inbox until you approve them in Obsidian. Other tools you switch on can write directly, and the Inbox has no undo, so keep a backup. There are two routes: the ChatGPT plugin (Remote MCP) after you sign in to a Smart Plugins Connect session, or Local MCP, a server on 127.0.0.1 for ChatGPT desktop, Claude Desktop (through a generated extension) or another app on the same computer. Local means where the server runs: your notes still go to the AI app's model provider. The docs don't say what the remote route passes through or keeps on Smart Plugins' side. It comes with the All-access plan, $30 a month or $299 a year, with a 14-day trial. Run Obsidian 1.14.0 or later: older versions have an advisory (CVE-2026-104077) where a crafted note can run code when you start it as a slideshow. No advisories on Connect Pro itself. Biggest deduction: Connect Pro is closed source and all recent public work on the Smart plugins is by one developer, so maintenance is scored one band lower. Close behind: Local MCP is plain HTTP with no sign-in, so any program on your computer that finds the port can use the tools you've switched on.