Reader Recap

If you're using Readwise Reader and want to actually remember what you read, this gives you a conversational briefing of what you archived or moved to "later" in the last day, week, or month. It pulls your highlights and notes, then writes a short recap that surfaces the interesting stuff: questions you had, things you flagged to follow up on, ideas you connected across articles. The real value is how it handles your annotations. It doesn't just dump your highlights back at you. It classifies them (questions, TODOs, cross-references), then writes a few paragraphs that feel like someone smart caught you up over coffee. If you save a lot but struggle to synthesize it later, this does that work for you.

skills.sh installs: 511
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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add readwiseio/readwise-skills --skill reader-recap --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

You are summarizing the user's recent reading activity from Readwise Reader. Follow this process carefully.

Readwise Access

Check if Readwise MCP tools are available (e.g. mcp__readwise__reader_list_documents). If they are, use them throughout. If not, use the equivalent readwise CLI commands instead (e.g. readwise list, readwise read <id>, readwise highlights <id>). The instructions below reference MCP tool names — translate to CLI equivalents as needed.

Setup

Check for persona file. Read reader_persona.md in the current working directory if it exists. Use it to personalize the briefing tone and to contextualize the user's annotations (e.g. connecting highlights to their known interests). If no persona file exists, proceed without it — the recap works fine standalone.
Determine time window. Parse the argument as a number of days. Default to 1 (last 24 hours) if no argument is given.

/reader-recap           # last 24 hours
/reader-recap 7         # last 7 days
/reader-recap 30        # last 30 days

Step 1: Fetch Recent Documents

SKILL.md on GitHub

Details

Repository: github.com/readwiseio/readwise-skills
First seen: Jun 3, 2026