zotero-mcp

Read-only MCP server that lets Claude or any MCP client search and retrieve metadata, notes, full text, citations, and BibTeX from your local Zotero library via its built-in API.

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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_BASE_URL— override the API base (default http://localhost:23119/api).

configZOTERO_USER_ID— override the local user id (default 0; almost always correct).

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 5 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: 11907ba3669df4449da1adde92a66b4128f28462

code hash: b8f6a4614b17526af13a7ec69618062bc2772e6028d683387d7b3558a28c8447

verified: 6/17/2026, 11:43:47 AM

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