read-later

A reading-list tool that saves article links with a short AI-generated summary and a category tag. It can fetch the article’s text and basic details when the page is available.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps save articles, summarize their main point, label them by topic such as AI or web development, and still store a link when the full page cannot be fetched.
Why use it?
It keeps interesting links from being forgotten and gives you a quick way to understand and organize them later.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit/read-later
Any agent
npx skills add mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit --skill read-later
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 619 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.00619
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00309
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00062

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4be0724ea650, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

read-later 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 2d 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/read-later/SKILL.md · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read Later

Save articles to your reading list with a short summary and category tag. Never lose an interesting link again.

Trigger Phrases

  • "read later:"
  • "save article"
  • "interesting:"
  • "read this:"

Workflow

Step 1: Extract URL

Parse the URL from the user's message. If no URL is provided, ask for one.

Step 2: Fetch Article

Fetch the page content and extract the article body, title, author, and publication date. Strip navigation, ads, and boilerplate.

If fetching fails (paywall, 404, timeout), save with just the URL and title from the link text. Note: "Could not fetch full content."

Step 3: Generate Summary

Write a 3-4 sentence summary of the article. Focus on:

  • What the article is about (one sentence)
  • The key insight or argument (one-two sentences)
  • Why it matters or who it's useful for (one sentence)

Keep the summary factual. Don't editorialize.

Step 4: Categorize

Assign one category tag based on the content:

Category Signals
AI Machine learning, LLMs, AI tools, agents
Web Dev Frontend, backend, frameworks, APIs
DevOps Infrastructure, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring
Career Growth, management, interviewing, culture
General Everything else

Step 5: Save

Add to the reading list.

Using {{notes}}: Create an entry with fields: Title, URL, Summary, Category, Date Saved, Status (Unread).

Markdown fallback: Append to ~/.ai-workflow/reading-list.md:

## [Article Title](https://example.com/article)
- **Saved**: 2026-03-19
- **Category**: AI
- **Status**: Unread

Summary text here.

---

Step 6: Confirm

Respond with a brief confirmation:

Saved: "Building Agents That Actually Work" (AI)
> 3-sentence summary here.

Examples

Save from URL:

read later: https://example.com/great-article

Saved: "Great Article Title" (Web Dev)
> The article covers new patterns for server components in React 19.
> Key insight: streaming SSR reduces TTFB by 40% in benchmarks.
> Useful for frontend engineers migrating from client-side rendering.

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 100 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 4be0724ea650

Subscribe to this mod's changes

read-later is a skill published in the GitHub repository mpaarating/ai-workflow-kit (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 619 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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