Apple Books

{
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "name": "io.github.vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp",
  "description": "Access your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude",
  "title": "Apple Books",
  "repository": {
    "url": "https://github.com/vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp",
    "source": "github",
    "id": "961227279"
  },
  "version": "0.9.0",
  "websiteUrl": "https://vgnshiyer.me/AppleBooksMcp",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "pypi",
      "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
      "identifier": "apple-books-mcp",
      "version": "0.9.0",
      "runtimeHint": "uvx",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      },
      "environmentVariables": [
        {
          "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.",
          "format": "boolean",
          "default": "false",
          "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES"
        },
        {
          "description": "Folder holding the Apple Books stores (BKLibrary and AEAnnotation), if not ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents.",
          "format": "filepath",
          "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR"
        },
        {
          "description": "How many tool calls may run at once (default 8; 0 runs them one at a time on the event loop).",
          "format": "number",
          "default": "8",
          "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS"
        },
        {
          "description": "Seconds a library query may run before it is stopped (default 30; 0 for no limit).",
          "format": "number",
          "default": "30",
          "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "registryType": "mcpb",
      "identifier": "https://github.com/vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp/releases/download/v0.9.0/apple-books-mcp-0.9.0.mcpb",
      "version": "0.9.0",
      "fileSha256": "0fe18329889376b756716d14a3e6aa89374af7df1190504185632dcd68039fbc",
      "transport": {
        "type": "stdio"
      }
    }
  ]
}