For readers who live in Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini
Your assistant can add to your queue. It cannot empty it.
Readplace runs an MCP server. Connect it once and your assistant can save links and read your queue back, including an article's reader view and its summary. Marking things read and deleting them stay in the app, on purpose.
OAuth 2.0 with PKCE. No client ID or secret to configure, and you can revoke access at any time.
How to connect it
One URL and a sign-in.
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Paste one URL
https://readplace.com/mcp goes into your assistant's connector settings. Opening that same URL in a browser gives you the setup guide instead.
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Sign in once
Sign-in uses OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and the client registers itself, so there is no client ID or secret to copy. Your assistant never sees your password.
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Ask it to save or recall things
Save a link mid-conversation, ask what is in your queue, or pull an article's text or summary to talk about it.
Five tools that act, three that refuse
The refusals are the design, not a gap in it.
Five tools do something: save a link, list your queue, and pull an article's details, its reader view, or its summary.
Three more — mark read, mark unread, delete — exist only to tell your assistant to send you to the app. They return without changing anything. An assistant that misreads a sentence can add a link to your queue; it cannot empty it.
That asymmetry is deliberate. A stray save costs you one line in a list. A stray delete costs you something you meant to read.
What this does not do
- Your assistant cannot mark articles read, mark them unread, or delete them. Those three tools return without acting and point you back to the app.
- Claude works on any plan, including Free. ChatGPT needs a paid plan with Developer Mode turned on. Gemini connects free through the CLI; the Gemini app needs a Google AI Ultra subscription.
- A summary is a summary. Pulling a TL;DR is not the same as having read the piece.
- A link saved through the assistant starts as a placeholder and fills in as the crawler works, so the reader view is not there the instant it is saved.
- I wrote the connection steps for each assistant by hand. When they change their menus, the steps can drift.
Questions
- Which assistants work?
- Claude on any plan including Free. ChatGPT on a paid plan with Developer Mode turned on. Gemini free through the CLI, or the Gemini app with a Google AI Ultra subscription.
- Can my assistant delete things from my queue?
- No. Mark read, mark unread and delete return without acting and tell the assistant to send you to the app. Saving is the only write it can do.
- What do I paste into the connector?
- https://readplace.com/mcp. Opening that same URL in a browser gives you the setup guide.
- Is there an API key to manage?
- No. Sign-in uses OAuth 2.0 with PKCE and the client registers itself, so there is no client ID or secret. You can revoke access at any time.
- What can it read?
- Your queue listing, an article's details, its reader view text, and its summary.