Zotero MCP
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZOTERO_LOCAL | No | Use the local Zotero API. Set to 'true' for local read mode. Default is false. | |
| GEMINI_API_KEY | No | Your Gemini API key (required for Gemini embeddings). | |
| OPENAI_API_KEY | No | Your OpenAI API key (required for OpenAI embeddings). | |
| ZOTERO_API_KEY | No | Your Zotero API key. Required for web API access and write operations. | |
| ZOTERO_DB_PATH | No | Custom path to zotero.sqlite database file. | |
| GEMINI_BASE_URL | No | Custom Gemini endpoint URL (optional, for compatible APIs). | |
| OLLAMA_BASE_URL | No | Ollama server URL (default: http://localhost:11434). | |
| OPENAI_BASE_URL | No | Custom OpenAI endpoint URL (optional, for compatible APIs). | |
| ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID | No | Your Zotero library ID (numeric user ID or group ID). Required for web API access. | |
| ZOTERO_WEBDAV_URL | No | Optional WebDAV folder URL for direct attachment downloads in remote mode. | |
| ZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE | No | The type of library: 'user' (default) or 'group'. | |
| GEMINI_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | Gemini embedding model name: 'gemini-embedding-001'. | |
| OLLAMA_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | Ollama embedding model name (e.g., 'nomic-embed-text', 'bge-m3', 'qwen3-embedding' by default). | |
| OPENAI_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | OpenAI embedding model name: 'text-embedding-3-small' or 'text-embedding-3-large'. | |
| ZOTERO_EMBEDDING_MODEL | No | Embedding model for semantic search: 'default', 'openai', 'gemini', or 'ollama'. | |
| ZOTERO_WEBDAV_PASSWORD | No | Optional WebDAV password. | |
| ZOTERO_WEBDAV_USERNAME | No | Optional WebDAV username. |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
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Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
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Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
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Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
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