Apple Books

Access your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude

What does this entry provide?

Apple Books is an MCP server entry in ChatHome Skills, sourced from Official MCP Registry and scored 78/100. As a Model Context Protocol server, it exposes tools that MCP-compatible LLM clients such as Claude, Cursor, and Copilot can call directly, extending an agent's reach beyond its built-in capabilities. ChatHome Skills discovered this entry through its daily ingest of official registries and GitHub discovery queries, and re-verifies repository facts, freshness signals, and install metadata on every run. The quality score weighs official-registry presence, a working install command, license clarity, GitHub star trajectory, and repository freshness — the full formula is on the Sources page. The install command above is ready to copy. Review the last-pushed date and repository status before adding Apple Books to a production agent workflow; the snapshot facts below are point-in-time values from the most recent ingest.

Snapshot facts

Source: Official MCP Registry
Quality: 78/100
Install method: pypi
Repo: vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp
Repo updated: Oct 1, 2026

Install command

uvx apple-books-mcp==0.9.0

Install method: pypi

Review the upstream source before running this command.

GitHub project Homepage

Quality

Repo stars

Repo updated

Oct 1, 2026

How is this score calculated?

Weighted across six dimensions, scored 0-100.
Provenance (25): listed in an official or curated registry.
Installability (25): a runnable install command beats a declared transport, which beats a source checkout.
Maintenance (20): recency of the last push; archived entries score zero here.
Adoption (20): repository stars on a log curve.
Documentation (10) and description quality (10): parsed manifest or SKILL.md frontmatter, and a real description rather than a placeholder.

MCP manifest

{
  "_meta": {
    "io.modelcontextprotocol.registry/official": {
      "status": "active",
      "isLatest": true,
      "updatedAt": "2026-10-01T15:59:15.619944Z",
      "publishedAt": "2026-10-01T15:59:15.619944Z",
      "statusChangedAt": "2026-10-01T15:59:15.619944Z"
    }
  },
  "server": {
    "name": "io.github.vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp",
    "title": "Apple Books",
    "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
    "version": "0.9.0",
    "packages": [
      {
        "version": "0.9.0",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "identifier": "apple-books-mcp",
        "runtimeHint": "uvx",
        "registryType": "pypi",
        "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
        "environmentVariables": [
          {
            "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES",
            "format": "boolean",
            "default": "false",
            "description": "Allow the collection write tools (create, rename and delete collections; add and remove books). Writes refuse to run while Books is open and take a backup first."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR",
            "format": "filepath",
            "description": "Folder holding the Apple Books stores (BKLibrary and AEAnnotation), if not ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS",
            "format": "number",
            "default": "8",
            "description": "How many tool calls may run at once (default 8; 0 runs them one at a time on the event loop)."
          },
          {
            "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT",
            "format": "number",
            "default": "30",
            "description": "Seconds a library query may run before it is stopped (default 30; 0 for no limit)."
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "version": "0.9.0",
        "transport": {
          "type": "stdio"
        },
        "fileSha256": "0fe18329889376b756716d14a3e6aa89374af7df1190504185632dcd68039fbc",
        "identifier": "https://github.com/vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp/releases/download/v0.9.0/apple-books-mcp-0.9.0.mcpb",
        "registryType": "mcpb"
      }
    ],
    "repository": {
      "id": "961227279",
      "url": "https://github.com/vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp",
      "source": "github"
    },
    "websiteUrl": "https://vgnshiyer.me/AppleBooksMcp",
    "description": "Access your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude"
  }
}

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