install

Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install markdown-oxide

provider-native install command

overview

Package summary

Personal Knowledge Management System for the LSP

Project links

Commands and aliases

markdown-oxide

history

Project history and usage

markdown-oxide is a Personal Knowledge Management language server for Markdown notes, designed to bring Obsidian-like note-linking workflows into editors that speak the Language Server Protocol.

Project history

The project was created on GitHub in 2023. Its documentation describes markdown-oxide as an unbundled PKM system: it deliberately leaves text editing to editors such as Neovim, VS Code, Helix, and Zed, and focuses on knowledge-management behavior through LSP features.

The feature set grew around Markdown note graphs: wikilink and Markdown-link completions, backlinks, unresolved-link completions and code actions, hover previews, daily-note commands, tags, workspace symbols, callout completions, footnotes, and rename support for linked notes.

Adoption history

markdown-oxide adopted quickly for a young editor tool, with the official GitHub repository showing thousands of stars by 2026. The README documents installation through Arch Linux, Mason.nvim, Nix, Alpine, openSUSE, Conda, Cargo, winget, and Homebrew, matching the supplied package facts that show broad package-manager coverage.

How it is used

Users install the markdown-oxide binary and configure their editor's LSP client to start it for Markdown files. In Neovim 0.11 and newer, the docs recommend native LSP configuration with root markers such as .git, .obsidian, and .moxide.toml.

Configuration is optional and can live in a global settings.toml under ~/.config/moxide or in a project .moxide.toml. The documented options tune daily-note formats, heading completions, unresolved-link diagnostics, semantic tokens, code-block reference handling, Obsidian imports, link-extension behavior, hover, inlay hints, and excluded folders.

Why package nerds care

markdown-oxide is notable because it packages a note-taking workflow as an editor-neutral LSP server instead of a full app. That makes it attractive to package managers and editor plugin ecosystems: one binary can serve Neovim, VS Code, Helix, Zed, and other LSP clients.

Timeline

2023: GitHub repository created.
2026: Official README lists package-manager installs across Linux, macOS, Windows, and editor package flows.
2026: Repository metadata shows thousands of stars and active development.

Related projects

The docs explicitly position markdown-oxide as compatible with and inspired by Obsidian.
It belongs to the wider LSP ecosystem used by editors such as Neovim, VS Code, Helix, Zed, and Kakoune.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.config/moxide/settings.toml.moxide.toml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`markdown-oxide`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version0.25.12

manager updated2026-06-29

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:markdown-oxide
Version	0.25.12
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://oxide.md
Repository	https://github.com/Feel-ix-343/markdown-oxide
Last updated	2026-06-29T07:56:21Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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source trail

Generated from repository data

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/markdown-oxide.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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