Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to ArtiPyHeart/mcp-ebook-read. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArtiPyHeart/mcp-ebook-read/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ArtiPyHeart/mcp-ebook-readWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/artipyheart/mcp-ebook-read/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/artipyheart/mcp-ebook-read/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/artipyheart/mcp-ebook-read/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/artipyheart/mcp-ebook-read/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/artipyheart/mcp-ebook-read/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01699 | $0.01699 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00849 | $0.00849 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00340 | $0.00340 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00170 | $0.00170 |
Grade A, and why
mcp-ebook-read AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
mcp-ebook-read Agent Guide
Scope
- Build a Codex-usable MCP focused on reading EPUB and PDF books/papers.
- Keep the implementation minimal first, then iterate.
Product Mission
- Build toward as-lossless-as-possible parsing of EPUB/PDF books and papers so LLMs can understand source materials with high fidelity.
- Make the MCP a practical reading companion that collaborates deeply with human users and supports large-scale reading workloads.
Typical Scenarios
- Use outline-first navigation plus selected chapter reading to summarize content, answer reading questions, and guide users through difficult sections.
- Help users bring books/papers into real engineering projects, then evaluate incremental value through reading, formula understanding, and code implementation.
Environment
- Python package/dependency workflow uses
uv. - Prefer
uv run ...for all local commands. - Prefer replying to users in Simplified Chinese in chat responses only.
- Prefer English for project files, documentation, and code comments.
Constraints
extern/is reference-only.- Do not modify files under
extern/. - Do not track
extern/in git.
Decision Policy
- For any uncertain decision, stop and ask the user before proceeding.
- Apply fail-fast principle across the project.
- Use a single implementation path for each feature; avoid redundant fallback/bypass paths unless explicitly approved.
- During iteration, always optimize for LLM best practices when using this MCP to read books and papers.
- If compatibility and breaking changes conflict, prefer breaking changes.
- When shipping breaking changes, remove parameters/fields that are no longer used; do not keep deprecated placeholders.
- Continuously simplify the codebase: remove redundant branches, stale outputs, and dead compatibility layers.
- MCP tool names must encode file format and use-case explicitly to minimize LLM confusion; avoid generic multi-mode tool names.
- Prefer explicit observability over silent degradation: when parsing/extraction falls back, loses fidelity, or cannot explain an output confidently, surface structured diagnostics to the MCP caller so the agent can notice, complain, and route feedback to the human user.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 83 lines · 1,699 tokens per session scan A f8f88e5f9230
mcp-ebook-read AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository ArtiPyHeart/mcp-ebook-read (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,699 tokens to every session, about $0.0085 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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