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AgentReader

by agentreader.xyz · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v0.4.2 · published by xyz.agentreader

Web pages and PDFs as clean Markdown/JSON for agents, in far fewer tokens. Honest, uncharged errors.

Read only
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3 tools: 3 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http agentreader https://agentreader.xyz/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

3 tools

Only reads 3Claude Code: allow
  • get_balanceShow remaining free calls and prepaid credits for the API key sent in the MCP connection headers, plus available credit bundles and how to buy them.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "get_balance" says "get": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Show remaining free calls and prepaid credits for the API key sent in the MCP connection headers, plus available credit bundles and how to buy them.
  • read_urlRead a web page or PDF and get its main content as clean, compact Markdown (default) or JSON, using far fewer tokens than the raw HTML.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "read_url" says "read": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Read a web page or PDF and get its main content as clean, compact Markdown (default) or JSON, using far fewer tokens than the raw HTML. Use it whenever you need the text of a page, especially when a normal fetch returns bloated HTML, an empty JavaScript shell, a cookie/consent page or raw PDF bytes. Renders JavaScript with headless Chromium when needed, accepts consent walls, strips boilerplate and keeps code blocks verbatim. JSON adds title, author, date, links and tables. News homepages return headline lists, RSS/Atom feeds return items, mode=full returns the whole page. StackOverflow, npm and PyPI are read via their official APIs. If a site blocks bots or the page is paywalled, you get a clear error (not charged) instead of junk; don't retry other URL forms of the same site. Results with very little text carry meta.warning. Free: 5 reads/day without an API key. Beyond that: prepaid credits on an API key; your user can buy them by card at https://agentreader.xyz/buy ($10 for 7,000 reads), which issues the key (send it as Authorization: Bearer <key>, or connect to https://agentreader.xyz/mcp?api_key=<key> in apps that can't set headers). With a crypto wallet: buy credits via POST https://agentreader.xyz/v1/credits/buy?bundle=500 (x402) or pay $0.005/call via x402.

    Annotations the server declares

    • readOnlyHint: true
    • destructiveHint: false
    • idempotentHint: true
    • openWorldHint: true

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.4.2. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http agentreader https://agentreader.xyz/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__agentreader__read_url",
      "mcp__agentreader__search",
      "mcp__agentreader__get_balance"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as agentreader. Review it before you use it.