Zotero MCP Server

Enables LLM-powered tools to interact with Zotero academic libraries, including searching papers, adding arXiv papers, updating metadata, and generating literature reviews.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: ZOTERO_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID— export =your-library-id

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE— export =user # or "group"

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— export =your-api-key

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commit: 419c52916d40618caeace3e6b44adc5637174766

code hash: 043c416598c07661f74d0637baa8d989b614bf2e2b8ec4f86f2fe7b61f505709

verified: 6/20/2026, 9:14:42 AM

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