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Zotero MCP
by Steven YuConnectorResearch something
Lets your AI assistant search, read, summarise and annotate papers in your Zotero library
About Zotero MCP
Connects your Zotero reference library to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Codex: search papers by title, tag or meaning, read them, add highlights and notes, and add papers by DOI or link.
For Graduate studentsResearchersResearch labs
Made by Steven Yu
An open-source project by developer Steven Yu, published on GitHub.
- Stars
- ★ 5.7k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Free
- Level
- Intermediate
- Runs
- Local
Screenshots
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Overview
Zotero MCP connects your Zotero reference library to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor. Your assistant can search by title, tag, full text or meaning, read papers and their BibTeX, add highlights and notes, and add new papers by DOI or URL. The same package also offers a command-line route for agents and a chat panel inside Zotero. It suits students, researchers and labs that already keep their papers in Zotero.
It works on the library you already have, and in local mode reads come straight from Zotero on your own computer.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- List five papers in my Zotero library about [topic], with authors and year. Don't change anything.First try · read-only
- Summarise the key findings of [paper title] and give me its BibTeX.
- Highlight the main claims in the PDF of [paper title] and add a short note.writes to Zotero
- Add this paper to my [collection] collection: [DOI]writes to Zotero
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
Capabilities
From the creator's documentation.
| Toolset | What your agent can do | Access |
|---|---|---|
| Search | Look up papers by title, author, tag, collection, words in the text, or meaning | Read |
| Read | Item details, BibTeX citations, full text and chosen pages of a PDF | Read |
| Annotate | Highlights, boxes and notes on specific words, figures or tables in a PDF | Read + write |
| Add and organise | New papers from a DOI, URL, ISBN, BibTeX or file; collections, tags and duplicate merging | Read + write |
| Semantic search | Optional search by meaning with local, OpenAI, Gemini or Ollama embeddings | Read |
Good to know
Ask questions about the papers you already keep in Zotero and get answers that point back to items in your library. The connector can search, read full text and BibTeX, and, once writes are enabled, add highlights, notes and new items.
Limits
- Zotero must be installed with its local API enabled. Changes to the library need Zotero 10 with a one-time authorization, or a Zotero web API key on older versions.
- Optional semantic search can use OpenAI or Gemini embeddings, which sends text to those services; local embeddings are also offered.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: zotero-mcp), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Zotero MCP README · Zotero MCP: getting started
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