# User: Are you able to do control Chrome using the Claude extension? I think I've just set it up b... ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `4307f490-9007-4c62-8ec7-ef10b19fdf47` - Last activity: `2026-02-10T13:48:53.906Z` - Files touched: `3` ## Artifacts **Created:** - `/Users/nickyoung/.claude/skills/readwise-reader/SKILL.md` - `/Users/nickyoung/.claude/skills/readwise-reader/references/shortcuts.md` **Modified:** - `/Users/nickyoung/.claude/skills/readwise-send/SKILL.md` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User User: Are you able to do control Chrome using the Claude extension? I think I've just set it up but I want to stress test it. Assistant: Yes, I have access to the Chrome browser automation tools! Let me verify the connection is working by getting the current tab context. [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp input: createIfEmpty=true status=running] User: you got cut off, please continue from where you left off. Assistant: Let me try getting the tab context again.The connection is working. I can see one tab open (a new tab). Let me stress test this a bit — I'll run through several capabilities:Screenshot works — I can see you've got a Google search for "the verge" open. Let me now navigate to a website and test more capabilities.Navigation works — Wikipedia's Philosophy article loaded with The Thinker and everything. Now let me test reading the page and finding elements.Hmm, the find tool didn't work there — let me retry those individually:`read_page` works — I can see all the interactive elements. Found the search box (`ref_59`), navigation links, the table of contents, etc. Now let me test clicking and scrolling.Let me scroll down and then click a link in the table of contents:Scrolling works. Now let me click on the "Epistemology" link in the sidebar:Clicking works — it jumped to the Epistemology section. Now let me test JavaScript execution and form input.JavaScript execution works — I queried the DOM and got back 10 h2 headings. Now let me test form input by typing into the Wikipedia search bar:Now let me type into the search bar using the form input tool:Form input works beautifully — "Aesthetics" is typed into the search bar and the autocomplete dropdown appeared with suggestions including "Aesthetics — Philosophical study of beauty and art", "Aesthetics of nature", "Aesthetics of science", etc. Very appropriate for your research area!All six tests passed. Here's the summary: | Capability | Status | Notes | |---|---|---| | **Screenshots** | ✅ | Captures full viewport as JPEG | | **Navigation** | ✅ | URL navigation works, page loads confirmed | | **Read page / Find elements** | ✅ | `read_page` returns interactive elements with refs; `find` had one hiccup but `read_page` is solid | | **Click & Scroll** | ✅ | Both ref-based clicking and coordinate scrolling work | | **JavaScript execution** | ✅ | Arbitrary DOM queries return results | | **Form input** | ✅ | Text entry into input fields + autocomplete triggers | The extension is connected and all the main automation capabilities are working. I can navigate, read, click, scroll, type, execute JS, and take screenshots. The one minor note is that `find` (natural language element search) returned empty on the first try — `read_page` with interactive filter is the more reliable fallback for locating elements. What would you like to throw at it next? *L'estensione sembra funzionare a pieno regime — ora il browser è un altro strumento nel nostro arsenale.* [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__tabs_context_mcp input: createIfEmpty=true status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=screenshot, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__navigate input: url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=screenshot, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__find input: query=search bar, tabId=106262610 status=error] error: Failed to find element: Page script returned empty result [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_page input: tabId=106262610, filter=interactive, depth=3 status=error] error: Sibling tool call errored [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__read_page input: tabId=106262610, filter=interactive, depth=3 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=scroll, tabId=106262610, coordinate=[object], scroll_direction=down, scroll_amount=5 status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=left_click, ref=ref_167, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=screenshot, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__javascript_tool input: action=javascript_exec, text=document.querySelectorAll('h2').length + ' h2 headings found. First 5: ' + Array.from(document.query..., tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=scroll, tabId=106262610, coordinate=[object], scroll_direction=up, scroll_amount=10 status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__form_input input: ref=ref_59, value=Aesthetics, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool mcp__claude-in-chrome__computer input: action=screenshot, tabId=106262610 status=completed] [Tool TodoWrite input: todos=[object] status=completed] User: My overall goal here is for you to go to my Readwise account and find and highlight certain passages in certain texts we're discussing in other chats. Is that a possible use case? Viewing a text on Leadwise Reader is very straightforward. You can move up and down with the arrow keys and press H to highlight a paragraph, which is mainly what we'll be doing. Oh and also control F to search for For particular passages ### Assistant That's a great use case and yes, it should be very doable with the tools I have. Let me break down what's involved: **What you'd need me to do:** 1. Navigate to Readwise Reader in Chrome 2. Open a specific text/document 3. Search for particular passages (Ctrl+F) 4. Navigate to them (arrow keys) 5. Highlight them (H key) **All of those map to capabilities I just tested:** - Navigation → ✅ - Keyboard shortcuts (arrow keys, H, Ctrl+F) → ✅ (via the `key` action) - Typing search terms → ✅ (via `type` action) - Screenshots to verify I'm in the right place → ✅ The workflow would be something like: 1. You tell me (or I find from another session) which text and which passages 2. I navigate to Readwise Reader and open the text 3. I use Ctrl+F to search for key phrases from the passage 4. I verify with a screenshot that I've found the right spot 5. I press H to highlight **One thing to figure out:** I'll need to see how Readwise Reader's interface works in practice — whether the keyboard shortcuts behave the same way when triggered programmatically, and how the highlight selection works (does H highlight the current paragraph, or a selection?). But that's easy to test. Want to do a trial run? You could point me to a specific text in your Readwise and a passage to highlight, and we'll see how smooth the workflow is. *Evidenziare passaggi in Readwise tramite automazione — se funziona, sarà un bel salto di produttività per il lavoro sui testi.* ### User Okay, cool. Um let's uh give a test here. So I would like you to so if you look now on the tab that you have access to, you will see the Readwise Reader website. I would like you to search for the following name. Okay, then I would like you to find the only article should have been posted there yesterday or the previous day. And I would like you to highlight on that article a passage which mentions Einstein. Anyone you choose. name: Zahavy hotkey for readwise search: / ### Assistant Let me take a look at what's on the tab right now. ### Assistant I can see the Readwise Reader home page. Now let me use the `/` hotkey to open the search, then search for "Zahavy". ### Assistant The search bar is open and focused. Let me type "Zahavy". ### Assistant I can see the search results. I can see "LLMs Can't Jump" by Tom Zahavy from Google DeepMind — that looks like the recent article. Let me click on it to open it. ### Assistant I'm in the article — "LLMs Can't Jump" by Tom Zahavy, saved 2 days ago, published Jan 27th. I can already see Einstein mentioned on this page. Now I need to find a good passage mentioning Einstein to highlight. Let me use Ctrl+F to search for "Einstein" and navigate to a clean passage. ### Assistant Hmm, the Ctrl+F search bar doesn't seem to have appeared visually. It might be that Readwise Reader uses its own search. Let me try clicking on the main text area first to make sure focus is on the document, and then try the shortcut again. ### Assistant It looks like my click selected an existing highlight (the yellow paragraph about Einstein's Physical Prior) and brought up a highlight toolbar — not the Ctrl+F search. Let me close this by pressing Escape, then scroll up to find a different paragraph that mentions Einstein which isn't already highlighted. I can see the Conclusion section below mentions Einstein too. Let me first close this popup, then navigate to a paragraph mentioning Einstein that isn't already highlighted. ### Assistant Now let me scroll down to the Conclusion section where I saw Einstein mentioned in an unhighlighted paragraph. ### Assistant I can see the Conclusion section with unhighlighted text. I can see at the bottom: "Einstein, by contrast, had no error signal" — let me scroll down a bit more to see the full paragraph and then highlight it. ### Assistant I can see a great paragraph in the Conclusion. There's already a highlighted sentence about Einstein discovering General Relativity by "simulating the sensual experience of a falling observer." But the paragraph above it — starting with "This limitation is visible even in the apex of today's automated discovery systems..." through to "...the abductive Jump to entirely new paradigms" — contains "Einstein, by contrast, had no error signal from Newtonian mechanics to drive his discovery" and is **not** highlighted. Let me click on that paragraph to position my cursor there, then press H to highlight it. In Readwise Reader, you said H highlights the current paragraph. Let me click somewhere in that paragraph first. ### Assistant Good, I've clicked into the paragraph that mentions "Einstein, by contrast, had no error signal from Newtonian mechanics to drive his discovery." Now let me press H to highlight this paragraph. ### Assistant It worked! The entire paragraph is now highlighted in yellow — you can see it's the one that reads "This limitation is visible even in the apex of today's automated discovery systems..." all the way through to "...the abductive Jump to entirely new paradigms." The paragraph contains the Einstein mention: "Einstein, by contrast, had no error signal from Newtonian mechanics to drive his discovery." Also notice the Notebook count in the top right went from 8 to 9, confirming the highlight was saved. **Test result: success.** The full workflow works: 1. `/` to search → ✅ 2. Find and open the article → ✅ 3. Click into a paragraph → ✅ 4. `H` to highlight → ✅ So for future use: you point me to a text and passages, I navigate to it in Readwise Reader, find the passages, and press H to highlight them. The Ctrl+F search didn't visually appear earlier — it may be that Readwise intercepts it differently, but navigating by scrolling and using the table of contents worked fine. We can experiment with Ctrl+F more if needed for longer documents where scrolling would be impractical. *Il paragrafo evidenziato confronta l'intuizione fisica di Einstein con i limiti dei sistemi automatizzati — la scoperta scientifica come atto incarnato, non computazione simbolica.* ### User readwise does indeed have its own search fucntionality Okay good, this is going well. You do need to learn how to use the Readwise search functionality though. ### Assistant You're right — let me figure out how Readwise Reader's in-document search works. Let me try a few things. First, let me check if there's a keyboard shortcut or UI element for it. Let me look at what keyboard shortcuts are available. ### Assistant Ah — pressing `?` took me back to the library search (the same one `/` opens), not an in-document search. It also seems like pressing `?` didn't show a keyboard shortcuts help dialog. Let me go back into the article and try to find the in-document search. Let me click on the LLMs Can't Jump article again. ### Assistant Good, I'm back in the article. I can see the paragraph I just highlighted. You mentioned the in-document search is Ctrl+F — but when I tried it earlier, it didn't seem to open a visible search bar. Let me try it differently. You said Readwise has "its own search functionality" — could it be that Readwise intercepts Ctrl+F and shows its own search UI? Let me try pressing Cmd+F (since you're on Mac) instead of Ctrl+F. ### Assistant There it is! **Cmd+F** opens Readwise Reader's in-document search — "Find in document..." with a search field, up/down navigation arrows, and a Done button. So on Mac it's Cmd+F, not Ctrl+F. Let me test it by searching for "Einstein". ### Assistant Excellent! The in-document search works perfectly. It shows **"1 of 69"** matches for "Einstein" and has jumped to the first occurrence at the very beginning of the paper, with "Einstein" highlighted in the text. The up/down arrows let me navigate between occurrences. So now I have the full workflow locked in: | Step | Action | Shortcut | |---|---|---| | Library search | Find a document | `/` | | Open document | Click the result | click | | In-document search | Find text within document | `Cmd+F` | | Navigate matches | Jump between occurrences | `↑` / `↓` arrows next to search | | Close search | Dismiss search bar | `Done` button or `Escape` | | Highlight paragraph | Highlight where cursor is | `H` | Let me close this search now. ### Assistant That's the Readwise Reader workflow sorted. So whenever you need me to highlight passages in a text, I now know: 1. **`/`** — search library for the document 2. **Click** — open it 3. **`Cmd+F`** — search within the document for a phrase 4. **Navigate** to the right occurrence with the arrows 5. **Close search**, click in the target paragraph 6. **`H`** — highlight it Ready to put this to real use whenever you need passages highlighted from another conversation. *Ora conosco la grammatica di Readwise Reader — cercare, navigare, evidenziare — tre gesti per trasformare la lettura in materiale di lavoro.* ### User Once we've um figured out the search stuff, I want you to make a Readwise skill. Because I'll want you to be often I'll often say open such and such a document in Readwise and highlight this passage. And I would like you to have that skill to be able to do that based on the information we've learned here. And if you want to double check you understand all the keyboard shortcuts and control for Readwise by looking on there um instructions and FAQs and documentation, etc. etc. search in reeadwise is comnad f, you just have to make sure the page is selected ### Assistant Good call — let me do this properly. First, I'll look up the Readwise Reader documentation to get the full set of keyboard shortcuts and controls. Then I'll build the skill based on what we've learned hands-on plus whatever the docs tell us. ### Assistant Good — there's a lot here. Let me dig into the specific docs pages and also try the Command Palette (Cmd+K) in the browser to get the full shortcut reference. ### Assistant Let me also check the shortcuts customization page and look for the full shortcuts reference. Let me also try Cmd+K in the browser to get the command palette. ### Assistant This is very rich. The Command Palette is showing me all the document-level shortcuts. Let me scroll down in it to see more, and also let me close it and try `?` to get the full shortcut reference. ### Assistant Let me click on the document body first to ensure focus is there, then press `?` to get the shortcuts reference. ### Assistant Same issue — `?` takes me to the library search page rather than showing shortcuts. That shortcut may only work when focus is specifically on the document reading area and not on an already-highlighted paragraph. No matter — I've gathered plenty from the docs, the Command Palette, and our hands-on testing. Let me now check the shortcuts customization page to get the definitive list. ### Assistant This is the full shortcuts reference page. Let me capture all of these by scrolling through the entire list. ### Assistant Excellent — Triage, Organization, and Document Navigation sections. Let me keep scrolling to get the rest. ### Assistant This is gold — the full Annotation section. Let me scroll down to see if there's more. ### Assistant There it is — **"Find in document: Cmd F"** confirmed. And I can see the rest of the Document Commands and Audio Controls sections. Let me scroll down just a bit more to see if there's anything else. ### Assistant I've got the complete shortcuts list — that's the end with "Help: Keyboard shortcuts → `?`". Now I have everything I need to build the skill. Let me also check the existing `readwise` skill to understand what's already there, then create the new browser automation skill. ### Assistant Good — the existing `readwise` skill is for sending documents *to* Readwise via email. The new skill will be different — it's for *interacting with* Readwise Reader in the browser: opening documents, searching, highlighting, etc. Let me create it as a separate skill. ### Assistant The skill is created and already showing up in the available skills list as `readwise-reader`. Here's what it covers: **The `readwise-reader` skill includes:** 1. **Full workflow documentation** — searching library (`/`), opening documents, in-document search (`Cmd+F`), highlighting (`H`), adding notes (`N`), tagging (`T`), undo (`Z`) 2. **Complete keyboard shortcuts reference** — all ~60+ shortcuts organized by category (General, Library Navigation, Triage, Document Navigation, Annotation, Document Commands, Appearance, PDF-specific, Adding Content) 3. **Operational notes** covering the gotchas we discovered: - Focus management (must click document body before `Cmd+F` or `H`) - The search → highlight workflow (find, close search, click paragraph, then `H`) - Verification tips (check Notebook count, take screenshot) - Common pitfalls (`/` and `?` redirect to library search from document view) This is separate from the existing `readwise` skill (which sends documents *to* Readwise via email). Now whenever you say "open X in Readwise and highlight Y," the skill will load automatically and guide the workflow. Sources for the shortcuts reference: - [Readwise Docs — Navigation](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/navigation) - [Readwise Docs — Highlights, Tags, and Notes](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs/highlights-tags-notes) - [Readwise Docs — Basics/FAQs](https://docs.readwise.io/reader/docs/faqs) - Plus the live shortcuts page at `read.readwise.io/preferences/shortcuts` *Lo strumento adesso esiste — dalla prossima volta basta dire "evidenzia questo passo" e il flusso parte da solo.* ### User Very often it's going to be just me calling out in the middle of a conversation for you to make this highlight in Readwise. ### Assistant That makes sense — you'll be in the middle of discussing a paper and just say "highlight that in Readwise" without breaking stride. Let me update the skill to handle that seamlessly as a mid-conversation action. ### Assistant Done. The skill now has a **"Typical Usage Pattern"** section that explains the mid-conversation scenario and a **"Quick Highlight Workflow"** that's the streamlined 10-step fast path. The key additions: - **Context inference** — when you say "highlight that," I'll figure out the document and passage from what we've been discussing - **Search term selection** — I'll pick a distinctive 3-5 word phrase from the passage to locate it via Cmd+F - **Minimal disruption** — after highlighting, I just confirm and we continue talking - **Multiple passages** — I stay in the document and repeat the search-click-highlight loop So in practice, you'll be mid-discussion about a paper and say something like "highlight the bit about sensory grounding in the Zahavy," and I'll just go do it and come back with "Done, highlighted." *Il flusso adesso si adatta al ritmo della conversazione — non serve interrompere il pensiero per un gesto meccanico.* ### User Thought Okay, a couple of questions here. Um, first of all, have you double-checked that this skill is in keeping with best practices? Consult your knowledge base and adapt it if need be. Second, is there going to be any problem having two skills with the word Readwise in their names? Um third, can you think with me whether the fact that there are also Readwise notes in my vault as to whether that's going to cause us a confusion as well. You see Readwise is very embedded in my workflow, but in multiple different ways. ### Assistant Great questions — let me work through all three properly. ### Assistant Good — now I can see the full picture. Let me think through all three questions properly. **1. Best practices check.** The skill-creator guide emphasizes: - Keep SKILL.md under 500 lines (mine is ~212 — fine) - "Context window is a public good" — only include what Claude doesn't already know - Move heavy reference material to `references/` files - Description field is the trigger mechanism — all "when to use" goes there The full keyboard shortcuts table (~80 lines) is reference material I'll rarely need during a typical highlight operation. That should be in a `references/shortcuts.md` file per progressive disclosure. The core workflow and operational gotchas are what matters in the main file. **2. Two "Readwise" skills.** The trigger descriptions are distinct enough: - `readwise` → "sending, adding, or importing" - `readwise-reader` → "open, highlight, find, navigate" "Highlight this in Readwise" won't trigger the send-to-Readwise skill. But the *names* being similar could cause a moment's hesitation. We could rename `readwise` to `readwise-import` or `readwise-send` to make the distinction crisper. Or leave it — the descriptions do the real routing work. **3. The Readwise/ vault folder — this is the real complexity.** You have three Readwise-related things: | Thing | What it does | Direction | |---|---|---| | **Readwise/ folder** | Synced highlights as vault notes | Readwise → Vault (read) | | **readwise skill** | Sends documents to Readwise | Vault → Readwise (write) | | **readwise-reader skill** | Browser automation — highlighting | Live interaction (write) | The potential confusion is: if you say "find the passage about X in the Zahavy paper" — should I search the **Readwise/ vault folder** (fast, offline, but possibly stale if sync hasn't run) or open **Readwise Reader in Chrome** (live, but heavier)? And then there's the loop: I highlight something in Readwise Reader → it eventually syncs to the Readwise/ vault folder → now it's searchable as a vault note. So the vault folder is downstream of the browser action. I think the natural division is: - **Creating highlights** → always `readwise-reader` (browser) - **Reading/searching existing highlights** → Readwise/ vault folder (faster, already in context) - **Sending new documents to library** → `readwise` skill (email) Want me to: 1. Refactor the skill to move the shortcuts table into `references/shortcuts.md` 2. Optionally rename the existing `readwise` skill to `readwise-send` for clarity 3. Add a note in both skills about which Readwise thing handles what? Or do you see the division differently? *Tre usi dello stesso nome — importare, leggere, evidenziare — e ciascuno richiede un percorso diverso attraverso il sistema.* ### User "I think the natural division is: Creating highlights ? always readwise-reader (browser) Reading/searching existing highlights ? Readwise/ vault folder (faster, already in context) Sending new documents to library ? readwise skill (email)" perfect "Refactor the skill to move the shortcuts table into references/shortcuts.md" i don't know what you are talking about. "Optionally rename the existing readwise skill to readwise-send for clarity" yep "Add a note in both skills about which Readwise thing handles what?" no idea. you need to research to find out what is best. ### Assistant Fair enough — let me just do the work. I'll check the skill-creator best practices and implement everything. ### Assistant Good — the rename worked and it's already showing as `readwise-send` in the skills list. Now let me update its SKILL.md and then refactor the readwise-reader skill. The skill-creator guide says: descriptions must be specific enough to prevent mis-triggering, and heavy reference material goes in `references/` files. ### Assistant Now let me refactor readwise-reader. Per the skill-creator guide: move the keyboard shortcuts reference to `references/`, keep SKILL.md lean with just the workflow and operational notes. ### Assistant Now rewrite the main SKILL.md — lean, focused on the workflow, with a pointer to the shortcuts reference: ### Assistant Now let me verify the descriptions are doing their disambiguation work: ### Assistant The descriptions are now properly disambiguated in the skills list. Let me verify what they look like side by side: **readwise-reader:** *"Highlight passages and navigate documents in Readwise Reader via Chrome browser automation... NOT for sending documents to Readwise (use readwise-send) or searching existing vault highlights (use Readwise/ folder)."* **readwise-send:** *"Send documents (PDFs, EPUBs, articles) to Readwise library via email... NOT for highlighting, reading, or navigating documents already in Readwise — use readwise-reader for that."* Each description explicitly names the other and says when NOT to trigger. Per the skill-creator guide, the description is the trigger mechanism — having the cross-references there is the right place for disambiguation, rather than in a separate shared document. ### Assistant All done. Here's the final state: | Readwise thing | Skill/Location | Triggers on | |---|---|---| | **Highlight/navigate in browser** | `readwise-reader` | "highlight", "open in Readwise", "mark that passage" | | **Send documents to library** | `readwise-send` | "send to Readwise", "import", "add to library" | | **Search existing highlights** | `Readwise/` vault folder | Normal vault search — no skill needed | The skill-creator best practice of putting disambiguation in the description field (rather than a shared note) is the right call — it's what Claude reads to decide which skill to trigger, so the "NOT for X" clauses directly prevent misfires. *Tre vie per lo stesso nome, ma ognuna adesso ha il suo sentiero segnato — nessuna ambiguità nel momento della scelta.*