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Readwise

Create, list, and export Readwise highlights and books, manage tags, and read the daily review.

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About

Readwise ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 20 actions, 1 health check, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.readwise
Version
0.1.1
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Productivity

Overview

Readwise aggregates highlights and notes from Kindle, Instapaper, Pocket, Twitter, Apple Books and dozens of other reading apps into one account, then resurfaces them for spaced-repetition review.

This app covers Readwise’s classic Highlights API (api/v2), not the separate Reader product: creating highlights from your own application (with automatic de-duplication and update-by-highlight_url), exporting a user’s full highlight history for backup or sync, and the fuller CRUD surface for reading, updating and deleting individual highlights and books plus their tags. It also reads and completes the Daily Review, Readwise’s spaced-repetition resurfacing queue.

Authentication is a single access token, verified through Readwise’s dedicated /api/v2/auth/ endpoint rather than any read that could echo the token back.

Build with Readwise

Three routes to the same 20 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Readwise's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Get Book

book-get

Read a specific book, article, tweet or podcast by id.

List Books

book-list

List the account's books, articles, tweets and podcasts.

Create Book Tag

book-tag-create

Add a tag to a book.

Delete Book Tag

book-tag-delete

Remove a tag from a book.

Get Book Tag

book-tag-get

Read one tag on a specific book.

List Book Tags

book-tag-list

List the tags on a specific book.

Update Book Tag

book-tag-update

Rename a tag on a book.

Complete Daily Review

daily-review-complete

Mark today's Daily Review as complete.

Get Daily Review

daily-review-get

Read today's Daily Review highlights.

Create Highlight

highlight-create

Save a highlight to the user's Readwise account. De-duped by Readwise itself.

Delete Highlight

highlight-delete

Delete a highlight by id.

Export Highlights

highlight-export

Pull a page of the user's highlight history, nested by book. Pass pageCursor to page through.

Get Highlight

highlight-get

Read a specific highlight by id.

List Highlights

highlight-list

Query highlights, optionally filtered to one book or a date range.

Create Highlight Tag

highlight-tag-create

Add a tag to a highlight.

Delete Highlight Tag

highlight-tag-delete

Remove a tag from a highlight.

Get Highlight Tag

highlight-tag-get

Read one tag on a specific highlight.

List Highlight Tags

highlight-tag-list

List the tags on a specific highlight.

Update Highlight Tag

highlight-tag-update

Rename a tag on a highlight.

Update Highlight

highlight-update

Patch one or more fields of an existing highlight.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Readwise's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "readwise-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "book-get",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.readwise",
        "action": "book-get",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "bookId": "<bookId>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Get Book

    read
    book-get
  • List Books

    search
    book-list
  • Create Book Tag

    perform
    book-tag-create
  • Get Book Tag

    read
    book-tag-get
  • List Book Tags

    search
    book-tag-list

+15 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Readwise, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Readwise. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "book-get",
  payload: {
    bookId: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action book-get --payload '{"bookId":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Readwise — without giving it Readwise's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.readwise#book-get",
    "input": {
      "bookId": "<bookId>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Readwise connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Readwise's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Readwise itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Readwise declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Readwise platform status

No public status page was found for Readwise as of 2026-08-29.