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Readwise MCP. Find specific quotes from your entire reading history

Readwise MCP lets your agent search and pull data from every highlight, book snippet, article, and note you've ever saved in Readwise. It turns your AI client into a personal research assistant that instantly recalls specific quotes or synthesize ideas across your entire digital library.

Readwise MCP is compatible with Claude Claude
Readwise MCP is compatible with ChatGPT ChatGPT
Readwise MCP is compatible with Cursor Cursor
Readwise MCP is compatible with Gemini Gemini
Readwise MCP is compatible with Windsurf Windsurf
Readwise MCP is compatible with VS Code VS Code
Readwise MCP is compatible with JetBrains JetBrains
Readwise MCP is compatible with Vercel Vercel
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Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access

Retrieve all saved highlights

List every snippet or quote you have ever bookmarked across your Kindle, Apple Books, and web sources.

Browse stored books and articles

Get a list of all the distinct source materials—books, articles, and documents—that are currently in your Readwise library.

Analyze knowledge tags

Fetch all the custom categories and organizational tags you use to file away your research notes.

Extract Reader content

Pull full article text and details from documents saved specifically in the Readwise Reader app.

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What AI agents can do with Readwise MCP with 6 Tools

These tools allow your agent to perform granular functions like listing books, retrieving specific documents, or finding all tags within your Readwise knowledge base.

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Check Auth Status

Confirms whether your provided Readwise access token is currently valid.

Get Reader Document

Retrieves the full content and details for a specific article saved in Readwise...

List Books

Generates a list of all books and source materials available within your Readwise...

List Highlights

Lists every single highlight, quote, or snippet you have ever saved across all...

List Reader Documents

Provides a list of document entries contained within the Readwise Reader section.

List Tags

Retrieves all custom tags and organizational categories you have applied to your notes.

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Readwise MCP is compatible with Claude

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Readwise integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

Choose How to Get Started

Build a custom MCP for your own tools, or connect a ready-made integration from our catalog.

Build Your Own

Turn any API into an MCP. Import a spec, define Agent Skills, or deploy with MCPFusion.

  • Import from OpenAPI, Swagger, or YAML specs
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Start with Readwise, then connect any of our 5,200+ other servers whenever your AI needs more. One click, no limits.

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The Problem: Your Knowledge Is Scattered

Think about what happens today. You read a brilliant article, highlight three key points, and save it in one place. A month later, you write a paper and need to reference that point, but now the notes are buried in an email chain or a separate reading app. You end up copying text from here, pasting into there, opening five different tabs just to piece together one idea.

With this MCP, the process changes completely. Your agent doesn't care where you saved the note—whether it was on Kindle, in a web article, or via a tweet save. It pulls everything together instantly, giving you the clean context and the exact quote you need right inside your chat window.

Readwise MCP: Your Unified Knowledge Retrieval

The manual steps that disappear are opening multiple apps, manually searching by date or keyword across different platforms, and the constant copy-pasting of source material. You no longer have to guess where you stored that crucial thought.

Now, your AI agent treats every highlight—every quote, every snippet—as a single, searchable resource. It's not just a search; it's synthesis on demand.

What Readwise MCP does for your AI

Think of this connector as giving your AI an actual memory—a perfect recall system for everything you’ve learned. Instead of relying on vague search terms, your agent digs through the unified data in your Readwise account, pulling together highlights from Kindle books, articles read online, and even saved tweets. You can ask it to find every mention of 'cognitive bias' across five different sources or list all the authors you bookmarked last month.

This capability is huge for knowledge workers because it connects ideas that were separated by weeks or months. When you connect this MCP via Vinkius, your AI client becomes less of a general chatbot and more of an expert research partner. You stop managing notes and start synthesizing knowledge. It’s about retrieving the exact quote from 'Sapiens' when you're writing a paper, without having to open five different apps.

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Frequently asked questions about Readwise MCP

How does the Readwise MCP access my highlights? +

The Readwise MCP accesses your data by connecting directly to your authenticated Readwise account. It doesn't just search general web results; it only pulls content you have personally saved and highlighted.

Can I use the list_tags tool for anything other than finding notes? +

While primarily used to list available tags, the agent uses this data in conjunction with list_highlights to filter your entire knowledge base by specific themes or categories.

What if I need content from a document that isn't an article? +

You can use get_reader_document for articles, but the general system is designed to pull highlights and snippets from books (like Kindle) as well.

Is this only for reading material, or can it handle other data? +

It specializes in your personal educational and research materials—highlights, books, and reader documents. It is not designed to manage emails or calendar events.

Does the Readwise MCP have a limit on how many highlights I can retrieve? +

No, it queries your entire unified library of saved data through list_highlights, allowing you to review every snippet and quote you've ever saved.