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title: "zoteus"
description: "Zotero library for your agent: search, PDF passages with page locators, CSL citations, add by DOI, group libraries, and safe writes."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/zoteus
last-updated: 2026-10-23
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# zoteus
Zotero library for your agent: search, PDF passages with page locators, CSL citations, add by DOI, group libraries, and safe writes.
- Slug: zoteus
- Publisher: Oscar Devos
- Repository: https://github.com/oscardvs/zoteus
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.15.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 0
- MCP servers: 1 (zoteus)
- Stars: 61
- Repository created: 2026-05-29
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-19
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/zoteus
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What zoteus does, in the publisher's words

A Zotero MCP server. Your whole library, inside Claude and ChatGPT.

Zoteus gives Claude Desktop, claude.ai, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and any other MCP client access to a Zotero library: search by keyword or by meaning, passages from your PDFs with page numbers, citations in any CSL style, adding items, and safe writes.

A real session, 6 September 2026, against the maintainer's own library. Tool calls are shown as a time-lapse. The full recording is on zoteus.com.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oscardvs/zoteus/HEAD/README.md

## MCP servers

- zoteus: transport: stdio; command: npx -y @oscardvs/zoteus; env: ZOTERO_API_KEY

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.