54yyyu/zotero-mcp

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that connects a Zotero research library to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Cherry Studio. It exposes tools for searching the library, retrieving full text and metadata, extracting PDF annotations, semantic vector search, and write operations like adding papers by DOI or URL.

Use cases

• chat with my zotero library in claude
• find papers about a topic in my research library
• get ai summaries of papers in zotero
• extract pdf annotations and highlights from zotero
• export citations as bibtex through an ai assistant
• add papers to zotero by doi with auto-fetched metadata
• semantic search over my research papers
• analyze citations and related work with an llm

When to choose

• you use Zotero and want an AI assistant to search, summarize, or discuss your library
• you need semantic/vector search across papers with local or cloud embedding models
• you want to extract PDF annotations, notes, and full text into LLM workflows
• you want write access from an AI client: adding papers by DOI/URL, managing collections and tags

When to avoid

• you don't use Zotero or an MCP-compatible AI client
• you need a standalone reference manager rather than an AI integration layer
• you require remote access with full attachment support (Web API mode has limited attachment support)

Facets

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mcp search-engine rag pdf nlp artificial-intelligence large-language-models developer-tools education python cross-platform cli self-hosted zotero model-context-protocol claude chatgpt semantic-search research-library bibtex academic-writing pdf-annotations embeddings ai-agents search

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