Zotero MCP Server (awsl5714/zotero-mcp-server) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. M8ven has not graded it: there is no public source to read and no endpoint we can reach, so there is nothing for us to inspect. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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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.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configZOTERO_LIBRARY_IDexport =your-library-id
configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPEexport =user # or "group"
🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEYexport =your-api-key
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Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

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All four hints declared on every tool

6/6 tools missing one or more hints — search_papers (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); add_arxiv_paper (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); update_metadata (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +3 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

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No license file

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commit: 419c52916d40618caeace3e6b44adc5637174766
code hash: 043c416598c07661f74d0637baa8d989b614bf2e2b8ec4f86f2fe7b61f505709
verified: 6/20/2026, 9:14:42 AM
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