xbghc/zotero-mcp

Enables querying, creating, and managing Zotero references via the MCP protocol.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — export_bibliography (line 110: mkdir(dirname(filePath), { recursive: true }))

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 3 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

⚠️

Tests do not pass

Either the test suite is broken or the code regressed. Either way the published behaviour can’t be verified by the publisher’s own tests.

✅

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.

configTRANSLATION_SERVER_URL— "": "http://localhost:1969"

configXDG_CACHE_HOME

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— "": "your-api-key",

configZOTERO_GROUP_ID— 否群组 ID（访问群组库时使用）

configZOTERO_MCP_CACHE_DIR

configZOTERO_USER_ID— "": "your-user-id"

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 10 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: 031ead5f9f8cf44de6363c2ddf156905cd35181c

code hash: 5bcd6f5fecfe128b84f505718064d37e4b6d61bdf51672132d2c32a62809ce8e

verified: 5/28/2026, 12:01:21 PM

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