remarkable-mcp

reMarkable MCP Server

Access a reMarkable library from MCP clients such as Claude, VS Code Copilot, OpenWebUI, and other compatible tools.

Features

• Browse folders and recent documents.
• Search names, tags, and extracted text.
• Read typed text, PDF and EPUB text, highlights, and annotations.
• Render notebooks and annotated PDFs as PNG or SVG.
• Export one document as a complete PDF or sectioned Markdown resource.
• Run handwriting OCR through Google Vision or Tesseract.
• Upload files and manage folders in supported transports.
• Render Markdown as PDF and upload it to the tablet.
• Open an interactive canvas in clients that support MCP Apps.
• Serve MCP over stdio or local Streamable HTTP.
• Serve MCP 2026-07-28 and every earlier SDK-supported revision from one stable SDK 2.x MCPServer.

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Quick Install

Prerequisite: install uv

The commands below use uvx, which is included with uv. Page images are rasterized with PyMuPDF; no system Cairo, browser, or graphics runtime needs to be installed on macOS, Linux, or Windows.

macOS and Linux

Use the official standalone installer:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Or install with Homebrew:

brew install uv

Windows

Use the official standalone installer from PowerShell:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Or install with WinGet:

winget install --id=astral-sh.uv -e

Choose a connection

Start with the first mode that fits your setup.

Order	Mode	Setup	Writes	Use when
1	USB web	Connect the tablet and enable USB web	Upload; destination chosen by tablet	You want the shortest setup without a subscription or developer mode
2	Local directory	Install and sign in to the desktop app	No	You want offline, device-free reads from the desktop cache
3	Cloud	Register once; Connect subscription required	Full document and folder management	You need wireless or remote access
4	SSH	Enable developer mode and configure SSH	Full management and native authoring	You need direct filesystem access or native ink writes

USB Web Interface

Connect via USB and enable the web interface in your tablet's Storage Settings.

1. Connect your reMarkable via USB
2. On your tablet, open Settings > Storage and enable USB web interface
3. Install via the button above

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp", "--usb"],
      "env": {
        "GOOGLE_VISION_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

• Make sure your reMarkable is connected via USB and unlocked
• Verify USB web interface is enabled in Settings > Storage
• The tablet should be accessible at http://10.11.99.1

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Local Directory Mode

Read the official reMarkable desktop app's sync folder from disk. This mode is offline and read-only. The desktop app controls synchronization.

Add to .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp", "--local-dir"]
    }
  }
}

With no path, the desktop app's data folder is auto-detected:

• macOS (current app): ~/Library/Containers/com.remarkable.desktop/Data/Library/Application Support/remarkable/desktop
• macOS (legacy app): ~/Library/Application Support/remarkable/desktop
• Windows: %APPDATA%\remarkable\desktop
• Linux: ~/.local/share/remarkable/desktop

Or point at any xochitl-style directory (e.g. a tablet backup):

{
  "servers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp", "--local-dir", "/path/to/xochitl-data"]
    }
  }
}

• Content freshness depends on the desktop app. Keep it running and signed in.
• This mode is read-only. Direct writes could bypass synchronization and corrupt the app cache.
• If the directory can't be found and a cloud token is configured, the server falls back to cloud mode for read access (the server remains read-only because it was launched in local-directory mode)

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Cloud Mode

Cloud mode works without a device connection and requires a reMarkable Connect subscription.

It fetches metadata in parallel and caches content-addressed blobs on disk. See Cloud performance and caching for configuration.

1. Get a One-Time Code

Go to my.remarkable.com/device/desktop/connect and generate a code.

2. Convert to Token

uvx remarkable-mcp --register YOUR_CODE

Registration saves the token to ~/.rmapi. When your MCP client runs the server as the same user on the same machine, remarkable-mcp reads that file automatically, so you do not need to put a token in the client configuration. Set REMARKABLE_TOKEN only when ~/.rmapi is unavailable, such as when the server runs under another user or on another machine.

3. Configure your MCP client

Minimal client-neutral server definition

Add this server definition using the MCP configuration UI or wrapper required by your client:

{
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["remarkable-mcp"]
}

No env entry is needed when the server can read the token from ~/.rmapi.

VS Code

VS Code's .vscode/mcp.json uses a top-level servers object. The saved ~/.rmapi credential means no token input is required:

{
  "servers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop and other clients

Claude Desktop and many other MCP clients use a top-level mcpServers object and literal values in env; they do not use VS Code's inputs array. With the token available in ~/.rmapi, the minimal configuration is:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

If the token file is unavailable, add "env": {"REMARKABLE_TOKEN": "your-token"} to the remarkable server entry. Consult your client's documentation if it uses a different outer key or secret-storage mechanism.

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SSH Mode

SSH provides direct filesystem access and native notebook authoring. It requires developer mode, which factory-resets the tablet when enabled. Use this mode only when USB web, local directory, or cloud mode does not provide the operation you need.

{
  "servers": {
    "remarkable": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["remarkable-mcp", "--ssh"]
    }
  }
}

See the SSH setup guide for authentication and device setup.

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Connection Modes

All modes support reading, rendering, and single-document export. Cloud and SSH support full library management. USB web supports upload but does not accept a destination folder. Local directory mode is read-only.

Mode	Setup	Subscription	Offline	Tablet required	Raw source	Upload	Folder operations¹
Local directory	Desktop app installed	No²	Yes	No	PDF and EPUB	No	No
USB web	Enable in Settings	No	Yes	Yes	PDF	Root only	No
Cloud	One-time registration	Connect	No	No	PDF and EPUB	Yes	Yes
SSH	Developer mode	No	Yes	Yes	PDF and EPUB	Yes	Yes

¹ Folder ops = create folder / move / rename / delete. Upload and folder ops are enabled by default; pass --read-only to expose a read-only server. Deletes move items to the trash and prompt for confirmation when your client supports elicitation, and are refused without it unless REMARKABLE_SKIP_CONFIRM=1 is set.

² The desktop app itself signs in to the reMarkable cloud to sync; local directory mode just reads whatever the app has already synced to disk.

Automatic cloud fallback

If a selected device transport is unavailable and a cloud credential is configured, the server falls back to cloud mode. A server launched with --local-dir remains read-only after fallback. remarkable_status reports the effective transport and sets fell_back_to_cloud.

Pass --no-cloud-fallback (or set REMARKABLE_DISABLE_CLOUD_FALLBACK=1) to disable this and fail instead when the device is unreachable.

The transport is resolved once per server process. Restart the MCP server after connecting a device or starting the desktop app if the process already fell back to cloud.

Detailed setup:

• USB web setup
• SSH setup
• Cloud performance and caching

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OpenWebUI (Streamable HTTP)

OpenWebUI's native MCP connection uses Streamable HTTP. Start remarkable-mcp on the same machine:

uvx remarkable-mcp --http

Then add http://127.0.0.1:8000/mcp as the MCP server URL in OpenWebUI. The HTTP transport combines with --usb, --ssh, and --read-only; for example:

uvx remarkable-mcp --usb --http

The bind address and port can also be set with --host / --port or REMARKABLE_MCP_HOST / REMARKABLE_MCP_PORT.

The server uses MCP Python SDK 2.x's dual-era endpoint. Modern 2026-07-28 requests are sessionless; older clients continue to use the initialize handshake and legacy MCP sessions on the same /mcp route. The reMarkable token and selected tablet transport remain process-local CLI/env configuration and are never inferred from MCP HTTP authorization headers.

[!WARNING] Streamable HTTP has no built-in authentication. It binds to 127.0.0.1 by default. Keep that default unless you control the network boundary. Wildcard binds such as 0.0.0.0 and :: are rejected because they cannot provide a strict Host allowlist. A concrete non-loopback address is allowed but exposes