Reader3000

An MCP server for READER.IIIK (reader3000.com) — share a Markdown document with a person, they read it in a clean, distraction-free reader and leave inline notes on exact passages, and those notes come back to you as structured change requests. You can leave notes too (as Mr. Robot, the reserved agent persona), revise the document, and delete it when you're done.

A surface for a review loop, not a place to keep anything important.

Install

reader3000-mcp is a standard stdio MCP server. Point any MCP host at npx -y reader3000-mcp — the one command every host wraps. Most hosts read it as a config-file entry:

{ "mcpServers": { "reader3000": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "reader3000-mcp"] } } }

Some spell the same thing as a one-line command:

claude mcp add reader3000 --scope user -- npx -y reader3000-mcp   # Claude Code

codex mcp add reader3000 -- npx -y reader3000-mcp    # Codex

The --scope user flag installs it for every project. Without it, Claude Code adds the server to the current directory only. Codex installs for all projects by default.

Or run it from a checkout: point your host at node mcp.mjs.

Tools

Tool	What it does
create	Share a Markdown document → {link, codename, name}. Hand the link to a person.
read	The document + its notes (each with passage, text, and author) + version.
annotate	Add your own notes, as Mr. Robot. Additive — nobody else's notes are touched.
revise	Replace the content (after applying notes). Conditional: a stale version is refused.
version	Cheap "has anything changed?" poll.
delete	Delete a document you created, by codename.
list	The local ledger: every document this server created and still owns.

ref arguments accept either a codename from the ledger (amber-harbor) or a reader3000.com share link someone gave you.

What this server does with your data — the whole truth

• Network surface: exactly six HTTPS calls, all to https://gateway.reader3000.com (/create /read /annotate /revise /version /delete). Nothing else ever leaves your machine; the code is one file (mcp.mjs) and greppable in one sitting.
• The gateway tier, stated honestly: the gateway encrypts/decrypts in memory and stores nothing; the storage server holds only ciphertext. Your text does transit the gateway in plaintext — that is the trade this tier makes for you not having to run any crypto. It is a good-effort privacy posture, not a vault, and it is why the rule above exists: a review surface, not storage.
• The ledger (~/.config/reader3000/ledger.ndjson; on Windows this resolves under your user profile): every document create makes is filed locally — codename, name, link, and the secret-bearing handle that authorizes revise/delete — so a document stays yours after the conversation that spawned it ends. That file is the keys: treat it like an unpassphrased SSH key. It is written mode 600 on macOS/Linux; on Windows your user profile's ACLs protect it. The handle never appears in any tool output; the conversation transcript only ever carries what the human you're sharing with would see anyway (the link, the codename).
• A link is access: anyone holding a share link can read, annotate, and revise that one document (not delete it). Documents expire on the server 30 days after creation.

Configuration

Env var	Default	Meaning
GATEWAY_BASE	https://gateway.reader3000.com	The gateway to talk to (dev override).
READER3000_LEDGER	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/reader3000/ledger.ndjson	Ledger file path.

Note: MCP hosts spawn servers with a minimal environment — set overrides in the host's server config (env block), not your shell profile.

Verifying

npm install, then npm test — from a checkout or the unpacked npm tarball, which ships the suite. It drives the real server over stdio against a stub gateway (no network, no reader3000 account needed) and locks the secret-hygiene rule: no tool output ever contains a handle.

This repository is published for use and audit; it does not take contributions.