zotero-mcp

MCP server that connects AI assistants to your Zotero library, enabling full-text PDF extraction and metadata search.

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// key findings

✅

10 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

10 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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Open source with a license and README

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

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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.

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— env =your_api_key_here \

configZOTERO_USER_ID— env =your_user_id_here

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 1 concrete improvement we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 1d22f2041a2b46954243c3ff2c3c8cd7df5ae14e

code hash: b4d158451eb7f5a85d7db28c00f944c266865dd9ee6b530de92fd035ce1c6ea0

verified: 6/22/2026, 12:11:30 PM

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