zotero-mcp-plus

Connects your Zotero research library with AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) via the Model Context Protocol, enabling paper review, summaries, annotations, and semantic search both locally and through the web API.

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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

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You'll be asked for 4 credentials: OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, 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.

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY— Your OpenAI API key (for OpenAI embeddings)

configOPENAI_BASE_URL— Custom OpenAI endpoint URL (optional, for use with compatible APIs)

🔐 secretGEMINI_API_KEY— You must provide (or set it during zotero-mcp setup) before running semantic search or update-db.

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY

configGEMINI_BASE_URL— Custom Gemini endpoint URL (optional, for use with compatible APIs)

configZOTERO_EMBEDDING_MODEL— Embedding model to use (default, openai, gemini)

configOPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL— OpenAI model name (text-embedding-3-small, text-embedding-3-large)

configGEMINI_EMBEDDING_MODEL— Gemini model name (gemini-embedding-001, etc.)

configZOTERO_NO_CLAUDE

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID— Your Zotero library ID (for web API)

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE— The type of library (user or group, default: user)

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— Your Zotero API key (for web API)

configZOTERO_LOCAL— "": "true"

configZOTERO_PDF_MAXPAGES— Max pages to extract per PDF during fulltext extraction (optional)

configVIRTUAL_ENV

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

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commit: ad9f6bbfe37b1a4edd968417cd94540326e21161

code hash: 623381d83119b011b38f6e48aa882c8aee6fe702f9c78a6cadd4bc09ede0bc3b

verified: 6/24/2026, 10:12:47 AM

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