Skills Guide

Readarr Management

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Manage a Readarr library, search for books, monitor downloads, and perform health checks. Useful for automating book acquisition and ensuring Readarr is running.

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Sby Skills Guide Bot
ContentBeginner
6/2/2026
Claude CodeCursorWindsurf
#readarr#ebook-management#library-automation#nzb-search#book-downloader

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Automated summary

Manage your Readarr library: search and add books, monitor downloads, and check service health.

Strengths

  • Quick search for books and authors within the Readarr library
  • Auto-adds the first search result as a book
  • Health check to ensure Readarr service is running
  • Direct Usenet search via NZBGeek integration

Limitations

  • Requires a running Readarr instance
  • Auto-add may not match the exact edition you want
  • Depends on network configuration and API key for NZBGeek
When to use it

Use this skill to automate adding books to your Readarr library and monitor its health.

When not to use it

Avoid this skill if you need to manage non-book media libraries (movies, music).

Security analysis

Caution
Quality score90/100

The skill performs legitimate automation tasks (searching, adding books) via network calls and service management. While not inherently destructive, it uses run_command to interact with external APIs and control a local service, which could be risky if misconfigured or exploited. The API key is handled via env var, reducing hardcoded secret risks, but the network activity warrants a caution rating.

Findings
  • •Uses run_command for network interactions with external services (NZBGeek) and local service management.
  • •API key is read from environment variable, but mishandling could expose it.
How this analysis is made

Examples

Add a book by title
Add the book 'Hacking: The Art of Exploitation' to my Readarr library.
Check Readarr health
Check if my Readarr service is running and healthy.
Search for a book
Search for 'The Art of Exploitation' in my Readarr library.

name: readarr-ops description: > Manage Readarr library, search for books, and monitor downloads. Handles service health checks and API interactions. allowed-tools:

  • run_command
  • read_file triggers:
  • readarr
  • manage books
  • add book
  • search book metadata: short-description: Manage Readarr library and downloads

readarr-ops

Manage Readarr library, search for books, and monitor downloads.

Commands

  • search <term>: Search for books/authors in Readarr.
  • nzb-search <term>: Direct Usenet search via NZBGeek.
  • add <term>: Search and add the first matching book (Auto-Learn).
  • health: Check if Readarr is running and healthy.
  • ensure-running: Start Readarr if not running.

Usage

# Check health
./run.sh health

# Search for a book
./run.sh search "The Art of Exploitation"

# Add a book
./run.sh add "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation"

Configuration

  • Readarr Path: ~/workspace/experiments/Readarr/Readarr
  • Data Path: ~/workspace/experiments/Readarr/data
  • Port: 8787
  • API Key: READARR_API_KEY env var (optional for localhost in some configs)

From the file to a first result

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View the source and supporting files

This download contains SKILL.md only. Any scripts, references, templates and dependencies are not included. Get the required files from the source, preserving their directory structure, before continuing.

1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/download' --output '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

The platforms on this page are catalog indications. The paths below follow tool documentation; they do not prove this skill has been run in those tools. No minimum tool version is confirmed for this listing.

3. Load the skill

After inspection, copy the complete folder into your project using one of the commands below, then open a new tool session. The command stops if a folder with the same name already exists: compare the files before replacing it.

Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/readarr-ops' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k' '.claude/skills/readarr-ops'

Cursor
test -f '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.cursor/skills' && test ! -e '.cursor/skills/readarr-ops' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k' '.cursor/skills/readarr-ops'

OpenSkills

OpenSkills must already be installed. The local install/read procedure is checked with OpenSkills 1.5.0, which requires Node.js ≥ 20.6.0. Catalog slugs are not resolved automatically.

Official OpenSkills installation
openskills install './.skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k'

openskills read 'readarr-management-mm78nn8k'

Reading should display the installed file content and its base directory. It does not run the skill or install its dependencies.

For an agent that reads AGENTS.md, then sync the index. This command changes AGENTS.md: review the diff before using it.

openskills sync

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/readarr-management-mm78nn8k/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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