Zotero-MCP: Connect your research library with your favorite AI models

54yyyu · April 15, 2025

Hey guys! Just wanna share a tool that I built recently - almost forgot to promote until someone asked for my payment QR code to get an extra feature added. XD

https://github.com/54yyyu/zotero-mcp

EwoutH · July 3, 2025

This is really cool, thanks for building it!

It would be great if Zotero could consider official MCP support based on the clear community interest and successful implementations like yours. Having this functionality built-in would make it accessible to more users.

See also: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/124860/will-mcp-service-be-released-in-the-future

54yyyu · July 4, 2025

Thanks! And yes agreed - if someone from the official Zotero team sees this post, let me know! I would love to help making official MCP support. :)

wakoma · July 27, 2025

+1 this would be a very useful feature.

poettli · July 27, 2025

I would prefer to keep Zotero away from AI. This can be done via plugins, as demonstrated above.

BVenture · July 28, 2025

I would like zotero to work with a local LLM, An agent such as ARIA that i can manually setup its API endpoint to a local llm.

haduong · July 28, 2025

Trying it and WOW, very much needed. Thanks a log 54yyyu !
I found that pulling a whole AI development stack (cuda, torch) on install is a bit terrifying. Exposing the API to models with the MCP protocol is the thing. Embedding entries and semantic retrieval is another thing.