reading_recommendations

reading_recommendations is a skill for Claude Code from sandraschi/calibremcp. It costs 0 tokens per session (481 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A book-recommendation tool for a Calibre library, an app that manages ebook collections. It uses your reading history, ratings, tags, series progress, and similar books to suggest what to read next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding highly rated unread books, books similar to a title, unfinished series, and neglected parts of your library.
Why use it?
It removes the need to browse a large unread list manually or remember which series you have left unfinished.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the calibre-mcp plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit Finding highly rated unread books, books similar to a title, unfinished series, and neglected parts of your library.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sandraschi/calibremcp/reading_recommendations
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 sandraschi/calibremcp --skill reading_recommendations
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sandraschi/calibremcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install calibre-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 481 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00000 $0.00481
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00241
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00048

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6114b44d32f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reading_recommendations 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/reading_recommendations/SKILL.md · 33 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 33 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reading Recommendations

Description: Get personalized reading recommendations from your Calibre library using series progress, ratings, tags, reading history, and collaborative filtering across similar books.

Trigger Phrases

  • "What should I read next?"
  • "Recommend a book like [title]"
  • "What's good in my unread [genre]?"
  • "Suggest something from my TBR pile"
  • "Find my next series to start"
  • "What have I been neglecting?"

Tools

  • query_books(sort="rating", unread=True, tags=[...], limit=20) — Find top-rated unread books in a genre.
  • manage_analysis(operation="reading_stats") — Reading statistics: completion rate, genre distribution, pages read, author diversity.
  • manage_analysis(operation="series_progress") — Series tracking: which series are started but unfinished, next-in-series ordering.
  • manage_metadata(operation="show", book_id=...) — Get full metadata for a candidate book: description, rating, tags, series position.
  • calibre_metadata_search(query="similar to [title]") — Semantic similarity search using LanceDB embeddings.

Workflow

  1. Profile the reader: Call manage_analysis(operation="reading_stats") to understand reading patterns, preferred genres, and completion behavior.
  2. Surface candidates: Use query_books(unread=True, sort="rating", tags=[preferred_genre]) to get top-rated unread books. Combine multiple tag filters for precision.
  3. Series catch-up: Call manage_analysis(operation="series_progress") to find series with book 1 read but book 2+ unread — these are high-confidence recommendations.
  4. Similarity match: For "like this book" queries, use calibre_metadata_search() with a descriptive query of the source book's themes.
  5. Rank and present: Score candidates by (rating + recency + series_position). Present top 3-5 with reasoning: why this matches the reader's taste, what tags overlap.

Example

"Recommend my next read from unread fantasy with high ratings." → query_books(tags=["fantasy"], unread=True, sort="rating", limit=30) → filter top 5 → manage_analysis(operation="series_progress") to prioritize continuations → present with per-book reasoning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 33 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. 9d ago First seen · 33 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6114b44d32f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reading_recommendations is a skill published in the GitHub repository sandraschi/calibremcp (42 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 481 tokens. 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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