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Zotero MCP

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

Sources and review

Checked against public documentation on September 23, 2026. 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 an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 5.1k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Install

uv tool install zotero-mcp-server

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