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Zotero MCP

Search, read and annotate your Zotero research library from Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients.

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Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.

Best for

Researchers who keep papers in Zotero and want an assistant to search, summarize and annotate them in place.

Avoid if

You need local writes without the desktop app: in local mode, changes go through a running Zotero 10 or later, otherwise through the web API.

About Zotero MCP

Zotero MCP connects a Zotero library to AI assistants over the Model Context Protocol. It searches by title, author, tag, collection, full text or meaning, using local or hosted embeddings; reads metadata, BibTeX and PDF page ranges; places highlights and notes; and adds items by DOI, URL, ISBN or BibTeX. It reads locally from zotero.sqlite or works through the Zotero web API, and offers a CLI with an agent skill for coding agents.

Zotero MCP is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 5.7k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in November 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.

Before connecting: access and data

This record's specific permissions have not been reviewed by ASE. Read the publisher's documentation before copying setup or connecting.

  • List the accounts, files and services the enabled tools can read, change or execute. Check your actual credentials and discovered tools.
  • Use narrowly scoped credentials and read-only mode where supported. Review proposed writes before approving them; a generated configuration does not apply these limits for you.
  • Local launch is not local-only data processing. External services receive requests, and your client may pass tool results to its model provider. Check both destinations before sharing private data.
  • Keep keys and browser session files out of shared config, repositories and screenshots. Know how to disconnect the server and separately revoke its credentials or account sessions.

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Install

uv tool install zotero-mcp-server
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