CLI cannot reach Obsidian in headless or sandboxed runs
Obsidian CLI cannot reach a running Obsidian app from headless Linux, Docker, or sandboxed agent runs and reports it is not open.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 10 March 2026 · last reported 14 July 2026
What's going wrong
When the Obsidian CLI runs on a server, in a container, or inside an agent sandbox, it often reports that Obsidian cannot be found even when the app is open.
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