AnkiWeb addon 1897413075
Connects your local Anki collection to a hosted MCP platform, letting linked AI assistants create, search, review, and schedule cards while keeping data on your computer.
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| Min Anki | Max Anki | Updated |
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| 2.1.66 | + | 2026-07-06 |
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Runs a local MCP server inside Anki so Claude or other LLM clients can create, search, edit, move and study your cards conversationally, plus analyze retention.
Runs a local MCP server inside Anki so AI assistants can create cards, quiz you, search and manage decks live, with an optional public tunnel for remote access.
Backs up add-on IDs via a synced deck and local add-on folders to WebDAV for restoration, optionally syncing selected decks to a self-hosted MCP knowledge base.
Combines PDFs, EPUBs, videos, web pages, and notes with normal flashcards in incremental study sessions, letting you highlight, extract new cards, prioritize, and resume where you left off.
Automates Ankiβs built-in self-hosted sync server, enabling fast desktop and mobile synchronization over local Wi-Fi with minimal setup, plus optional remote access and server settings.
Turns clipboard text into Anki flashcards using a chosen AI provider directly in the Add window, with review, regeneration, note-type mapping, and specialization options.
Use your Anki flashcards with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and more, through Toolforest's hosted MCP platform.
Toolforest Bridge connects your local Anki to Toolforest, a hosted remote MCP platform. Once it is connected, any AI assistant you have linked to Toolforest can create, search, review, and schedule your cards.
Your collection stays on your computer. The Bridge keeps card, deck, review, and sync operations local, while Toolforest gives your assistant controlled access to them.
βΆ Watch the 5-minute video β full setup walkthrough plus three real examples: an article turned into cards, weak cards found and rewritten, and a styled Japanese deck built from a single prompt.
Once the add-on is installed:
Tools β Toolforest Bridge and sign in to connect your collection.Full setup, including per-assistant instructions, is in the docs:
The toolkit exposes 26 tools, grouped as:
Full reference: Tool Reference: 26 tools with full schemas β
An Anki add-on that connects your local Anki collection to Toolforest, so AI assistants can read and create flashcards through the Toolforest MCP platform β without exposing anything on your network.
Anki collection β Toolforest Bridge add-on β wss://bridge.toolforest.io
local profile native executor Toolforest gateway
The add-on holds a single outbound WebSocket connection to the Toolforest bridge gateway. When a Toolforest tool call needs your Anki data, the gateway relays the request over that connection and the add-on executes it inside Anki through Anki's local Python APIs. Nothing on your machine listens for inbound connections, and your Anki data is only reachable while Anki is open.
1897413075. Manual fallback: download the .ankiaddon file from the latest GitHub release and use Tools β Add-ons β Install from fileβ¦The status entry in the Tools menu shows Connected / Signed out / reconnecting states, and the status dialog reports that the native Anki executor is active.
anki-addon/scripts/link.sh # symlink the add-on into your local Anki addons21/ dir
anki-addon/scripts/package.sh # build dist/toolforest_bridge.ankiaddon
python -m pytest anki-addon/tests
Set endpoint_override in the add-on config to point at a dev gateway. This changes the gateway URL only; local execution always happens inside the running Anki profile.
The packaged add-on vendors websocket-client (Apache License 2.0) under anki-addon/src/toolforest_bridge/vendor/websocket/; its license is included alongside the vendored code. This repository's own code is MIT-licensed (see LICENSE).