calibre-study-notes

calibre-study-notes is a skill for Claude Code from caelum29/calibre-mcp. It costs 243 tokens per session (2,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that creates study notes from books in a Calibre library for a human learner. It uses questions, recall exercises, source pointers, and optional Anki export rather than only providing a summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate or scaffold notes, quiz yourself in a review session, prepare Anki cards, and track spaced-review information.
Why use it?
It helps readers actively process and review a chapter or topic, which is different from simply reading a finished summary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the calibre-mcp plugin — 5 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate or scaffold notes, quiz yourself in a review session, prepare Anki cards, and track spaced-review information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/caelum29/calibre-mcp/calibre-study-notes
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add caelum29/calibre-mcp --skill calibre-study-notes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caelum29/calibre-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install calibre-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 243 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,352 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium analysis-evasion · line 1
    Suspicious Unicode normalization or mixed-script content
    Fix: Review the flagged content for security risks. Ensure no credentials, secrets, or sensitive data are exposed.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 131
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00243 $0.02352
Opus 5 $0.00121 $0.01176
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00235

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3714c11eefda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

calibre-study-notes 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.

skills/calibre-study-notes/SKILL.md · 189 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 189 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

calibre-study-notes

Turn a chapter/topic from the user's Calibre library into a study note a human can actually learn from — or run a review session over an existing note.

Audience is the human learner. Everything follows from that. A perfect prose summary is a FAILURE here: reading a finished summary bypasses the generation effect (people retain what they process, not what they read). The note must force processing: questions before answers, hidden answers, retrieval prompts, blanks for the reader's own words.

Modes

Mode What it produces When
generate Full study note file (default) "законспектуй розділ X"
scaffold Structure + questions + source pointers only; body left as fill-in blanks for the human User wants maximum retention / asks to "fill it myself"
review Interactive quiz session in chat over an existing note; no new file "поганяй мене по...", "review", or a note's next_review date has passed

Depth (orthogonal to mode):

  • quick — TL;DR + core concepts + 5 self-test questions. No diagrams, no cross-library search. Default when the user asks casually or the runtime model/budget is constrained.
  • deep — full template: reader-domain examples, diagrams, scope: library cross-check, Anki block, misconceptions, full verification. Default when the user says "глибоко", "детально", or is preparing for interviews/exams.

If mode/depth are ambiguous, infer from phrasing; do not ask about them separately — fold into the scoping step below.

Workflow (generate / scaffold)

1. Scope — before touching the book

Establish, from context or by asking (ONE compact question, not an interview):

  • Reader level in this topic: new / adjacent experience / refreshing.
  • Goal: interview in N days / deep study / working reference.
  • Scope: one chapter, several chapters, or a topic across the book. A topic across ≥3 books → suggest calibre-distill-topic instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 189 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 189 lines · 243 tokens per session scan A 3714c11eefda

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calibre-study-notes is a skill published in the GitHub repository caelum29/calibre-mcp (13 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 243 tokens to every session and 2,352 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-30.

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