Reading Time Skill

What this skill does

Let your agent estimate reading time. Call it as an MCP tool to compute how long text takes to read at a given words-per-minute. You switch it on with a single toggle — no SDK and no endpoint wiring — and it answers over MCP or REST using the same key as every other skill.

See it work

A real response from the Reading Time Skill — exactly what your agent gets back when it makes the call.

vervekit · readingtimetool call

{
  "text": "This is a sample article with multiple paragraphs. Reading time will be calculated based on word count. The average reading speed is 250 words per minute, which can be customized. This helps content creators provide accurate time estimates to their readers.",
  "wpm": 250
}

result

text_length: 257
word_count: 41
reading_time_minutes: 1
reading_time_seconds: 10
reading_time_text: 1 min read
words_per_minute: 250

Run it with your own input. Live calls happen in your dashboard, on your key.

Ways to use it

Text tooling without the ML stack

Enable Reading Time and your app can add reading time to your app — translate, analyze, clean — without hosting a model or wiring a language API.

A tool your agent invokes

Over MCP, readingtime is the tool your model calls to process text mid-task, on the same connection as every other skill.

Batch it from your backend

Call Reading Time over REST to add reading time to your app across a whole queue of text in your own server-side job.

Use it in your app

Once enabled, this skill is reachable two ways — pick whichever fits how you build. Both use the same key.

For AI agentsMCP

It appears to your model as a callable tool. No extra code — the agent invokes it when a task needs it.

readingtime

For apps & backendsREST

Call it from your server with one request and your key. Node, Python, Go — anything that can send a GET.

GET /v1/readingtime

Ask your agent

“Enable Reading Time and ask your agent to add reading time to your app.”
“Clean this text up and tell me what's in it.”

Reading Time Skill, answered

How to connect it over MCP or REST.

How do I add Reading Time to my app or agent?

Enable the Reading Time Skill on VerveKit, then reach it two ways with the same key: over MCP (it appears to your agent as the readingtime tool) or over REST (call it from any backend). No SDK to install and no endpoint to wire.

MCP or REST — which should I use?

Both work off one key. Use MCP when an AI agent should decide when to add reading time to your app — the skill shows up as a callable tool. Use REST when your own server-side code should call it directly. Many apps use both.

Which agents and frameworks does it work with?

Any MCP client — Claude, Cursor, LangChain, and custom agents all speak the Model Context Protocol, so Reading Time appears as a standard tool with nothing skill-specific to integrate.

How many credits does a Reading Time call cost?

Each call costs 1 credit. Every skill rides the same key and the same connection, so enabling more skills doesn't add more integrations to manage.

Do I need to install anything?

No SDK and no endpoint wiring — enabling the skill is a toggle. You point your agent at the VerveKit MCP endpoint (or call REST) and Reading Time is available immediately.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveKit runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Reading Time is one of 300+ skills on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Text tooling without the ML stack

A tool your agent invokes

Batch it from your backend

Reading Time Skill, answered

Give your software a way to act on the world.

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