Best MCP servers for Zotero
We found 20 MCP servers for Zotero in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. Zotero MCP, Zotero MCP and DocsAgent — Zotero, Obsidian & Apple Notes MCP Server lead it. Zotero MCP has the most GitHub stars here (5,548). 9 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Remote servers need no local install; local ones run on your machine and can reach local files. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 20
- 1Zotero MCP
54yyyu
Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.
- Most GitHub stars here (5,548)
- Most weekly downloads here (7.1K)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 5.5K↓ 7.1K/wkLast active Oct 16, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2Zotero MCP
kujenga
Search your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 162↓ 1.2K/wkLast active Aug 7, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 3
Instant, private access to your knowledge base: Zotero, Obsidian, Apple Notes (macOS).
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 578↓ 46/wkLast active Sep 28, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4Zoteus
oscardvs
Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 62↓ 275/wkLast active Oct 19, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5Research Hub
WenyuChiou
Research workspace for Zotero + Obsidian + NotebookLM.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 66↓ 144/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6zotio
OrgMentem
Zotero MCP server: local-first search, library checks, and preview-first writes for AI agents.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4Last active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Desktop
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7Zotero Library MCP
RaulSimpetru
Add papers and books to Zotero by DOI, arXiv ID, or ISBN and manage your library
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2↓ 208/wkLast active Oct 16, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8Obsidian Vault MCP
luffysolution-svg
Local Zotero, MinerU, Obsidian literature workflow with transactional Analysis notes.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 94↓ 75/wkLast active Aug 11, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 9OmniScholar
luffysolution-svg
Literature, Zotero, PDF, citation, materials, and scientific image tools for research agents.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 6↓ 226/wkLast active Sep 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10MCP Zotero
Xevos117
Unofficial Zotero server: search your library, add papers by DOI, import PDFs, cite in Word
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 38Last active Oct 25, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11MCP Server Zotero Dev
introfini
MCP server enabling AI assistants to build, test, and debug Zotero plugins
- Open source (MIT)
★ 40↓ 35/wkLast active Sep 20, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 12Zotero Native MCP
dvdsosa
Read and write your local Zotero 10 library.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 10Last active Oct 20, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13cern-inspire-mcp-server
cyanheads
Search INSPIRE-HEP papers, authors, experiments, HEPData records; get citation metrics and BibTeX.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 1↓ 265/wkLast active Oct 17, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14Zotero MCP Local
piiinpiiins
Search, read PDFs, and find related papers in your local Zotero library.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 8↓ 37/wkLast active Jul 26, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 15Agentic RL: Credit Assignment and CLI Agents
hoyant-su-agentic-rl.hf.space
Filter agent RL methods by supervision, critic and task setting; retrieve source links and BibTeX.
- Remote server, no local install
Last active Sep 8, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet