Apple BooksSAFE
Apple Books MCP Server
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Apple Books.
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At a glance
- Pick up where you left off — Claude sees the book you're reading, your progress and the chapter you're on, and pulls that chapter's text (
chapter_id="current") and your highlights when it needs them. - Find any book — by title or author, ignoring case, accents and curly quotes, with a link that opens it in Apple Books.
- Expand on any highlight — get the surrounding paragraph explained in context, with the exact anchor you marked shown in
«...». - Revisit a book — pull your highlights, cluster them by theme, and quote you back to yourself.
- Reflect on your reading — patterns across books, recurring ideas in your highlights, what you're actually drawn to.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77a5a29b-bfd7-4275-a4af-8d6c51a4527e
And much more!
Available Tools
List and search tools return one page at a time: 50 annotations or 200 books by default, limit between 1 and 500, and offset for the next page. When there is more, the output says so and names the next offset.
How results work:
- Ids are integers: every row starts with one, as in
[175] Title by Author, to pass on
9efa8faf10b7OBSERVED · 2026-10-08Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add apple-books-mcp -- uvx apple-books-mcp==0.9.0
Exposed tools (9)
9 read · 0 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
already_async | read | return |
busy | read | with lock: |
fails | read | if kind == |
heavy | read | time.sleep(0.3) |
sleep | read | time.sleep(seconds) |
slow | read | started.append(n) |
tool | read | return |
where | read | on_main = threading.current_thread() is threading.main_thread() |
with_context | read | return |
Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- none-observed
- Network
- none-observed
- Shell
- none-observed
- Dependencies
- pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (3)
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Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
9efa8faf10b7full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/vgnshiyer__apple-books.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-08 | 9efa8faf10b7 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the Apple Books MCP server?
Apple Books MCP Server
What tools does Apple Books expose?
9 in total: 9 read-only, 0 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is Apple Books safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does Apple Books need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does Apple Books run?
It speaks stdio, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as apple-books-mcp-bundle-tools at 0.9.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (9efa8faf10b7), read on 2026-10-08. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.