A collection of scripts for managing a Readwise Reader library. Readwise Reader is an app for saving and organizing articles and other reading material.

Use it to list, save, update, bulk-update, tag, or delete Reader documents, provided you have a Readwise access token.

It lets you search and maintain saved reading documents and tags from scripts instead of managing every item manually.

reader — Skill by xinthink

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/xinthink/reader-mcp-server/reader

Any agent

npx skills add xinthink/reader-mcp-server --skill reader

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xinthink/reader-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 748 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00061	$0.00748
Opus 5	$0.00030	$0.00374
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00150
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a037defb1d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reader 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (scripts/bulk_update_documents.py, scripts/create_document.py, scripts/delete_document.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/reader/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reader

Interact with Readwise Reader library using executable scripts.

Quick Start

All Reader operations are available as scripts in the scripts/ subdirectory:

Script	Purpose	Input
`list_documents.py`	Query documents	CLI flags
`create_document.py`	Save URL/content	JSON payload
`update_document.py`	Modify document	JSON payload
`bulk_update_documents.py`	Batch modify (max 50)	JSON payload
`delete_document.py`	Remove documents	JSON payload
`list_tags.py`	List all tags	CLI flags

Authentication

Set the READWISE_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable using one of these methods:

Method 1: Using a `.env` file

Create a .env file in the project directory:

READWISE_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-token-here

The scripts automatically load environment variables from .env using python-dotenv.

Method 2: Command line

Export in shell:

export READWISE_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-token-here

Or inline for a single command:

READWISE_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-token-here python scripts/list_documents.py

Getting your token

Get your token from: https://readwise.io/access_token

Setup

Install the required dependencies before using the scripts:

pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt

Common Workflows

List documents in a folder

python scripts/list_documents.py --location later --limit 10

Save a URL with tags

echo '{"url": "https://example.com/article", "tags": ["important"]}' | python scripts/create_document.py

Archive a document

echo '{"id": "doc-id", "location": "archive"}' | python scripts/update_document.py

Bulk archive multiple documents

echo '{"updates": [{"id": "doc1", "location": "archive"}, {"id": "doc2", "location": "archive"}]}' | python scripts/bulk_update_documents.py

Error Handling

Exit Code	Meaning	Action
0	Success	Parse stdout
1	API error	Check stderr for details
2	Auth error	Verify `READWISE_ACCESS_TOKEN`
3	Rate limit	Wait and retry
4	Invalid input	Fix payload/flags

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files 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.

2d ago First seen · 113 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 7a037defb1d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository xinthink/reader-mcp-server (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 748 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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