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Readwise Chat 📚💬 MCP server

Chat with your Reader library using Claude Desktop. Made possible with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol.

[!NOTE] 🚨 🚧 🏗️ Readwise Chat is under active development, as is the MCP specification itself. Core features are working but some advanced capabilities are still in progress.

Components

Resources

[!NOTE] 🚨 🚧 🏗️ Under development

Prompts

[!NOTE] 🚨 🚧 🏗️ Under development

Tools

The server implements two tools:

add-document: Adds a new document to your Reader library
- Takes "url" as required string arguments
- Updates server state and notifies clients of resource changes
list-documents: List documents in your Reader library
- Takes "location" as a required string argument
- Optional "category" or "updated after" string arguments

Configuration

[TODO: Add configuration details specific to your implementation]

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "readwise-chat": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/scott_carvalho/projects/readwise-projects/readwise-chat", "run", "readwise-chat" ] } } ```

Published Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "readwise-chat": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "readwise-chat" ] } } ```

Development

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

Debugging

Since MCP servers run over stdio, debugging can be challenging. For the best debugging experience, we strongly recommend using the MCP Inspector.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /Users/scott_carvalho/projects/readwise-projects/readwise-chat run readwise-chat

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

readwise-chat