zotero-mcp: Lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Zotero API, in Python

by kujenga · MCP Server · ★ 162

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How to install zotero-mcp

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run zotero-mcp

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 76/100

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.

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

Stars162
Forks26
LanguagePython
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score76/100
Open Issues3
Last Updated2026-08-07
Created2025-01-26
Platformsmcp, python
Est. Tokens~15k

About zotero-mcp

Model Context Protocol server for Zotero This project is a python server that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Zotero, giving you access to your Zotero library within AI assistants. It is intended to implement a small but maximally useful set of interactions with Zotero for use with MCP clients.

Compatible Skills

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

  • zotero-mcp — semantic(0.64)+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (52%)
  • investor-agent — semantic(0.19)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (52%)
  • Linguflex — semantic(0.16)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (51%)
  • zotero-code-execution — semantic(0.41)+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (49%)

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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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