Zotero-MCP-lite

Item: Zotero-MCP-lite
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

This MCP server enables AI assistants like Claude to read and search your local Zotero bibliographic database directly from your machine.

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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.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

// required environment variables

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

configZOTERO_DB_PATH— "": "/your/path/to/zotero.sqlite"

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 8ea7908312c0f75d8867606d2f59159032c8c081

code hash: 503120914686d6dc0c4923f8b834dc32ca640c5ff13938d78fa4c56ba9cfa38e

verified: 7/30/2026, 8:04:20 PM

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