Is Readwise Skills safe to use?

Readwise Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.

How do I install Readwise Skills?

Readwise Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Readwise Skills do?

Readwise Skills provides 2 tools: Installation, Personalization. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Readwise Skills?

Readwise Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.

Is Readwise Skills actively maintained?

Readwise Skills is recently maintained — last commit was 63 days ago. It has 230 GitHub stars.

Readwise Skills

Name: Readwise Skills
Author: readwiseio

Official

skills · by readwiseio

Agent skills for your Readwise and Reader data, powered by the Readwise MCP server/CLI. Triage your inbox, quiz yourself on what you've read, build a personalized now-reading page, and more.

230 1.1M/wk 2 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

No license

Maintained

Last commit 63d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio

2 tools · ~146 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "readwise-skills": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skills"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Readwise Skills does

Prerequisite: first, make sure you have the Readwise MCP server or CLI installed (whichever you prefer!)

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'skills' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

89/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−11

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

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Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked skills against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (2)

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~146 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Readwise Skills safe to use?: Readwise Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install Readwise Skills?: Readwise Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Readwise Skills do?: Readwise Skills provides 2 tools: Installation, Personalization. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Readwise Skills?: Readwise Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Readwise Skills actively maintained?: Readwise Skills is recently maintained — last commit was 63 days ago. It has 230 GitHub stars.

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Productivity Writing

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "readwise-skills": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skills"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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Read me

What Readwise Skills does

Prerequisite: first, make sure you have the Readwise MCP server or CLI installed (whichever you prefer!)

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'skills' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

Installation

Prerequisite: first, make sure you have the Readwise MCP server or CLI installed (whichever you prefer!)

If you're using an AI agent, you can probably just tell your agent to install the skills from this repo and let it do the work:

Install the skills from here https://github.com/readwiseio/readwise-skills so that you can use them. If neither is installed yet, the Readwise MCP server is a remote MCP server hosted at https://mcp2.readwise.io/mcp OR the CLI can be installed via `npm i @readwise/cli`. You only need one of these installed to use the skills.

If that doesn't work:

npx skills (recommended)

npx skills is a very easy way to install these skills; it will set them to work with any LLM app you might use (Claude, Codex, Opencode, Cursor, etc). Run this from the terminal:

npx skills add readwiseio/readwise-skills

Manual Installation

Copy the skills/ directory into your agent's skills path:

Claude Code: ~/.claude/skills/ or .claude/skills/ in your project
Codex CLI: ~/.codex/skills/
OpenCode: ~/.opencode/skills/

Claude Code Installation (with MCP Included)

Installs the MCP server and all skills in one command:

/plugin marketplace add readwiseio/readwise-skills
/plugin install readwise@readwise-skills

Claude Cowork Installation (with MCP Included)

In the Cowork sidebar: Customize → "+" → Add marketplace from GitHub → enter readwiseio/readwise-skills. Then browse and install the Readwise plugin.

The Skills

We've started this repo off with a few skills we've really enjoyed using, but so much more is possible!

Skill	Description
readwise-cli	Teaches your agent how to use the Readwise CLI — command syntax, setup, and common workflows
readwise-mcp	Teaches your agent how to use the Readwise MCP tools — tool names, parameters, and common workflows
triage	AI walks you through your inbox one article at a time, telling you what's worth your time and why
feed-catchup	Skim your Reader feed in batches — RSS, newsletters, Twitter digests — pull out the gems, mark the rest as seen
quiz	Test yourself on something you just read — graded like a smart colleague who also read the piece
book-review	Draft a long-form book review from your highlights — synthesizing the book with your broader reading history
reader-recap	Conversational briefing on your recent reading — what you finished, highlighted, and had to say about it
surprise-me	Analyze your reading history and tell you something surprising you don't know about yourself
highlight-graph	Visualize your highlights as an interactive 2D graph showing connections between ideas across sources
now-reading-page	Generate a "What I'm Reading" webpage from your library — host it on your personal site
build-persona	Build a reading profile from your highlights, tags, and history — powers personalization across all other skills

Personalization

Run the build-persona skill first to generate a reader_persona.md file. The other skills (triage, feed-catchup, quiz) read this file to personalize their output to your interests, goals, and reading style.

Please share yours!

These skills are just a starting point, quickly hacked up by the Readwise team based on what's been for us to try. There is still so so much more that can be done. Please make a pull request adding your own favorite skills, or shoot us an email at any time :)

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

89/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−11

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked skills against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (2)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~146 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Readwise Skills safe to use?: Readwise Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments.
How do I install Readwise Skills?: Readwise Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Readwise Skills do?: Readwise Skills provides 2 tools: Installation, Personalization. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Readwise Skills?: Readwise Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio transport.
Is Readwise Skills actively maintained?: Readwise Skills is recently maintained — last commit was 63 days ago. It has 230 GitHub stars.

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