zoteus
Active·★ 61·MIT·Updated 2026-10-19
Zoteus is an all-in-one Zotero Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that safely integrates your Zotero library into AI conversations. It enables searching papers, adding by DOI, formatting bibliographies, and running semantic search over your own PDFs, ensuring AI answers are grounded in your verified sources.
#Zotero Integration#AI Assistant#Research Tool#Knowledge Base#Citation Management#Semantic Search#Local-first#Model Context Protocol
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Features
01Perform hybrid keyword and semantic search across your Zotero metadata, full text, and annotations, returning results with page numbers.
02Generate CSL-formatted bibliographies in approximately 2,800 styles, ensuring accurate and non-hallucinated citations from your own library.
03Safely add new papers to your library by identifier (DOI/ISBN/PMID/arXiv) and conduct transactional writes (create, edit, tag) with versioning and reversibility.
04Extract relevant passages from PDFs with character offsets, nearest headings, and page locators to ground AI claims in source material.
05Built with TypeScript, offering a local-first, private, and open-source solution that works key-free with the Zotero desktop app for reads.
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Compatibility
Zotero
Knowledge Base
Verified via docs
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Integration Standard
Verified via docs
Claude Code
Client
Verified via docs
Cursor / VS Code / Claude Desktop / Codex / Zed
Editor/IDE Integration
Verified via docs
TypeScript
Runtime Language
Verified via docs
Node.js
Runtime
Verified via docs
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Quick start
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$ npx -y @oscardvs/zoteus
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Use cases
↳Enable AI assistants like Claude or Cursor to search for specific papers or information within your personal Zotero library.
↳Generate methods paragraphs or research summaries with accurate, machine-generated citations directly from your curated Zotero collection.
↳Quickly add new research papers to your Zotero library using only their DOI or other identifiers through an AI interface.
↳Allow AI to organize, tag, and edit items in your Zotero library, with built-in safety features like reversible trash and confirmation-gated deletions.
↳Ground AI-generated answers and claims by retrieving specific passages and page numbers from your owned PDF documents.
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