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Zotero MCP tool released: connects Claude and other assistants to Zotero libraries

Decision Brief

What changedThe open-source zotero-mcp project is released, using the Model Context Protocol to connect Zotero research libraries to AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT, supporting search, reading, annotation, and writing of references.

Why it mattersFor researchers and developers managing references with Zotero, the trade-off on this route is: an Agent with a shell can use a skill for just 98 tokens, while the default MCP server carries the schemas of 38 tools, about 13,448 tokens per request, so the integration method directly affects context cost in long sessions.

Who should careOpen-source model users, AI coding tool users

Affected stackClaude CodeMCPOpenAICursor

Builder actionUpdate Claude Code to the latest version

Source confidenceHigh · Official release / blog / repo

zotero-mcp ships as a single zotero-mcp-server package offering three access paths: an MCP server for MCP clients like Claude Desktop and ChatGPT; a zotero-cli plus agent skill for shell-capable Agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor; and a Zotero Agent chat panel inside Zotero. It supports searching references by title, author, tag, full text, or semantically, reading BibTeX and specified PDF page ranges, placing highlights and area annotations at original positions, and adding items via DOI, URL, ISBN, or file, plus managing collections and tags. Heavy features like semantic search and PDF processing are optional dependencies requiring extra semantic, pdf, and scite extensions.

Summary basis: full article readCompiled from the source scope noted above; the original remains authoritative.

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GitHub：54yyyu/zotero-mcp

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