Zotero MCP Server

Enables Poke to search and manage Zotero research library, including items, tags, collections, notes, full text, and annotations.

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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— Push this repo to GitHub, connect it to [Render](https://render.com), and set the environment variables (, ZOTERO_API_KEY) in the Render dashboard. The render.yaml handles everything else.

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— Push this repo to GitHub, connect it to [Render](https://render.com), and set the environment variables (ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID, ) in the Render dashboard. The render.yaml handles everything else.

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE

configZOTERO_LOCAL— Set =true to connect directly to the Zotero app running on your machine. This enables:

configPORT

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commit: 4fef1e4c9371a1ca091ddad44e17f34d1f9feb64

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verified: 6/22/2026, 1:10:48 PM

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