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# Readwise Chat 📚💬 MCP server
Chat with your [Reader](https://readwise.io/read) library using Claude Desktop. Made possible with Anthropic's [Model Context Protocol](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol?__readwiseLocation=).
> [!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`
<details>
<summary>Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration</summary>
```
"mcpServers": {
"readwise-chat": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/Users/scott_carvalho/projects/readwise-projects/readwise-chat",
"run",
"readwise-chat"
]
}
}
```
</details>
<details>
<summary>Published Servers Configuration</summary>
```
"mcpServers": {
"readwise-chat": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"readwise-chat"
]
}
}
```
</details>
## Development
### Building and Publishing
To prepare the package for distribution:
1. Sync dependencies and update lockfile:
```bash
uv sync
```
2. Build package distributions:
```bash
uv build
```
This will create source and wheel distributions in the `dist/` directory.
3. Publish to PyPI:
```bash
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](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector).
You can launch the MCP Inspector via [`npm`](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm) with this command:
```bash
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.
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