What is Readwise Chat

Readwise Chat is a server that allows users to interact with their Reader documents and highlights through a chat interface powered by Claude, utilizing Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol.

Use cases

Use cases include students discussing their reading materials, researchers querying their document highlights, and anyone looking to enhance their reading experience through interactive dialogue with their notes.

How to use

To use Readwise Chat, users need to install Claude Desktop and configure the MCP server. After setup, users can add documents to their Reader library or list existing documents using specific commands.

Key features

Key features include the ability to add new documents to the Reader library and list documents with optional filters. The server is currently under active development, with core functionalities operational.

Where to use

Readwise Chat can be used in educational settings, personal reading management, and research environments where users need to engage with text documents and highlights interactively.

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

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

2. Build package distributions:

uv build

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

3. 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.