Zotero MCP
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- AlicenseNot gradedqualityDmaintenanceConnects 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.MIT
- AlicenseAqualityBmaintenanceEnables users to chat with their Zotero research library through AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, with support for semantic search, metadata retrieval, annotations, write operations, and citation intelligence.38MIT
- AlicenseNot gradedqualityCmaintenanceEnables natural language interaction with Zotero libraries, allowing users to search, retrieve, and update papers and metadata via AI assistants like Claude and Gemini.1GPL 2.0
- AlicenseAqualityCmaintenanceEnables Claude to search, retrieve, and cite from your Zotero library, including local databases and zotero.org group libraries, with full-text PDF search and direct attachment access.23MIT
- AlicenseNot gradedqualityCmaintenanceConnects Zotero to Claude Desktop, allowing Claude to read, search, and organize a user's Zotero library through local and web APIs.MIT
- AlicenseNot gradedqualityBmaintenanceEnables AI assistants to search, access, and interact with your Zotero research library, including semantic search, metadata retrieval, PDF annotations, and library management.MIT
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Scored across 41 tools
Most tools target distinct resource/action pairs, and the descriptions cross-reference each other heavily, especially among the five search tools. The main ambiguity risk is between get_annotations, get_notes, and synthesize_annotations, and among the search variants, where careful reading is required to avoid misselection.
All tools share the zotero_ prefix and mostly follow a verb_noun pattern with get_, search_, create_, update_, and delete_. Minor deviations like zotero_manage_note as a multi-action CRUD tool, add_item versus create_collection, and set_item_collections versus update_item keep it from being perfectly uniform.
41 tools is well past the 25+ threshold, and while Zotero is a broad domain, the surface feels bloated: five search tools, seven collection-related tools, and multiple PDF-reading variants create redundancy. Several tools could be consolidated or parameterized without losing capability.
The surface covers the core Zotero lifecycle well: items, collections, notes, annotations, PDF reading, search, semantic search, bibliography export, and batch updates. Minor gaps remain, such as no direct library-wide paginated item listing and no API restore from Trash, but these are workable around.