kindle-weekly-letter: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/setup-kindle/SKILL.md

setup-kindle is a skill for Claude Code from ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter. It costs 29 tokens per session (836 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for a weekly service that sends letters to a Kindle reading device by email. It covers the sender's email settings, the Kindle address, and scheduled delivery.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring the email provider, connecting a Kindle address, preparing the Python environment, and arranging weekly scheduling.
Why use it?
It gives new users a defined path through the required setup, including using an app-specific email password instead of a normal account password.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

This is ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on kindle-weekly-letter itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kindle-weekly-letter configures →

Part of the kindle-letter plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter/main/.claude/skills/setup-kindle/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install kindle-letter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 836 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.
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 $0.00029 $0.00836
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00418
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00084

Measured 11d ago against content hash c1527a0e28d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-kindle 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 11d 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.

.claude/skills/setup-kindle/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Kindle Weekly Letter — Setup Guide

Walk the user through the complete setup process.

Step 1: Prerequisites Check

Run:

cd !`git rev-parse --show-toplevel` && python3 --version && (test -d .venv && echo "venv exists" || echo "no venv")

If no venv, create one and install:

uv venv && source .venv/bin/activate && uv pip install -e .

Step 2: Email Configuration

Ask the user which email provider they use. Support:

Provider SMTP Host Port
Gmail smtp.gmail.com 465
Yahoo smtp.mail.yahoo.com 465
Outlook/Hotmail smtp-mail.outlook.com 587
iCloud smtp.mail.me.com 587

Guide them to generate an App Password (not their regular password):

  • Gmail: Google Account → Security → 2-Step Verification → App Passwords
  • Yahoo: Account Security → Generate app password
  • Outlook: Microsoft Account → Security → App Passwords
  • iCloud: appleid.apple.com → Sign-In and Security → App-Specific Passwords

Step 3: Kindle Email

Ask the user for their Kindle email address.

How to find it:

  1. Go to Amazon → Manage Your Content and Devices
  2. Click Preferences tab
  3. Scroll to Personal Document Settings
  4. Find "Send-to-Kindle E-Mail" — it looks like [email protected]

Step 4: Approve Sender

IMPORTANT: Tell the user they must add their sender email to Kindle's approved list:

  1. On the same Personal Document Settings page
  2. Scroll to Approved Personal Document E-mail List
  3. Click Add a new approved e-mail address
  4. Add the email address from Step 2

Step 5: Write .env

Create .env file with the collected info:

[email protected]
EMAIL_APP_PASSWORD=xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx
[email protected]
SMTP_HOST=smtp.provider.com
SMTP_PORT=465

Step 6: Test Email

Send a test EPUB:

source .venv/bin/activate && python3 -m src.epub_builder --input output/sample_content.json --output output/test.epub && python3 -m src.email_sender --epub output/test.epub

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 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. 11d ago First seen · 108 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A c1527a0e28d0

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setup-kindle is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShawnBaek/kindle-weekly-letter (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 836 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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