Use Case
Readwise & Reader API is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Manage Readwise highlights, books, daily review, and Reader documents (save-for-later / read-it-later). Use when the user wants to save articles or URLs to Reader, browse their reading list, search saved documents, review highlights, create or manage highlights and notes, check their daily review, list books/sources, or interact with Readwise/Reader in any way. This guide walks you through installing Readwise & Reader API, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Readwise & Reader API: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install readwise-api
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to documents & notes to trigger Readwise & Reader API
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Readwise & Reader API with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Readwise & Reader API
Help me get started with Readwise & Reader API
What can Readwise & Reader API do for my documents & notes workflow?
Show me an example of using Readwise & Reader API
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install readwise-apiOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install readwise-apiβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/readwise-api/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.