zotero-mcp: Connects your Zotero research library with Claude and other AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol

by 54yyyu · MCP Server · ★ 5.7k

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How to install zotero-mcp

uv tool install zotero-mcp-server
pip install zotero-mcp-server

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 75/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars5,668
Forks453
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score75/100
Open Issues51
Last Updated2026-11-01
Created2025-03-22
Platformsclaude-code, mcp, python
Est. Tokens~17k

About zotero-mcp

Zotero MCP: Chat with your Research Library—Local or Web—in Claude, ChatGPT, and more. Zotero MCP seamlessly connects your Zotero research library with ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI assistants (e.g., Cherry Studio, Chorus, Cursor) via the Model Context Protocol. Review papers, get summaries, analyze citations, extract PDF annotations, and more! ✨ Features 🧠 AI-Powered Semantic Search Vecto

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with zotero-mcp for enhanced workflows:

  • mcp-context-forge — shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (51%)
  • zotero-mcp — semantic(0.71)+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (49%)
  • zotero-mcp — semantic(0.64)+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (47%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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