calibremcp
Copilot instructions50 starsChanged 23 days agoMITView on GitHub
You have access to a Calibre e-book library server with portmanteau tools for search, management, export, and RAG. Before starting work: 1. Search your library: querybooks(operation="search", query="<query>") 2. Check library health: managelibraries(operation="library_health") At end of work, save findings: - Use managebooks to update metadata and exportbooks to save results - Tag any books discussed for future reference
We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 3 are very specific to this project.
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- Very specific: line 6
Search your library: query_books(operation="search", query="<query>")
- Very specific: line 7
Check library health: manage_libraries(operation="library_health")
- Very specific: line 10
Use manage_books to update metadata and export_books to save results
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,669 Copilot instructions files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Session Context (Calibre MCP)
You have access to a Calibre e-book library server with portmanteau tools for search, management, export, and RAG.
Before starting work:
- Search your library:
query_books(operation="search", query="<query>") - Check library health:
manage_libraries(operation="library_health")
At end of work, save findings:
- Use
manage_booksto update metadata andexport_booksto save results - Tag any books discussed for future reference
Where files are headingNew Copilot instructions files have more rules about branches and pull requests, and fewer about code style.
Of the Copilot instructions files we read, the 2,297 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
In this repository9 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- llms-full.txtllms.txt
- llms.txtllms.txt
- calibre-session-contextSkill
- agentic_workflowSkill
- library_healthSkill
- reading_recommendationsSkill
- semantic_searchSkill
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