🧠 Anki MCP

Transform your Anki flashcard experience with AI! This MCP (Model Context Protocol) server bridges your Anki flashcard collection with AI assistants like Claude, enabling natural conversations about your study materials.

🚀 What Can You Do?

Imagine having an AI tutor that knows your entire flashcard collection and can:

📚 Interactive Learning

• “Quiz me on Japanese vocabulary I haven’t seen in 3 days”
• “Test me on challenging cards from my medical deck”
• “Show me cards I’ve been struggling with recently”

✨ Smart Content Creation

• “Create flashcards about photosynthesis with diagrams”
• “Turn this PDF chapter into spaced repetition cards”
• “Generate cloze deletion cards from my lecture notes”

🔍 Powerful Analytics

• “Which topics am I struggling with most?”
• “Show me my study patterns for the last month”
• “What’s my retention rate for different card types?”

🎯 Bulk Operations

• “Tag all my chemistry cards with ‘exam-prep’”
• “Move cards with low retention to an intensive review deck”
• “Find and fix duplicate cards across my decks”

🎯 Features

• 🎯 Smart Tool Design: Intuitive, high-level tools designed specifically for AI agents
• 💬 Natural Conversations: Talk to Claude about your flashcards like you would a study buddy
• ⚡ Lightning Fast: Efficient operations that don’t bog down your AI assistant
• 📦 Bulk Operations: Update thousands of cards at once with simple commands
• 📊 Study Insights: Deep analytics on your learning progress and patterns
• 🎨 Rich Media: Full support for images, audio, and other media in your cards
• 🔍 Powerful Search: Leverage Anki’s advanced search syntax through natural language
• 🔒 Rock Solid: Fully typed TypeScript with comprehensive error handling

🛠 Technical Stack

• Node.js: Runtime environment (18+ required)
• TypeScript: Type safety and developer experience
• MCP SDK: Model Context Protocol implementation
• yanki-connect: 🙏 Fully-typed, isomorphic AnkiConnect API client
• tsup: Fast TypeScript bundler
• PNPM: Efficient package manager