Zotero CLI Skill

zot is an all-in-one Zotero CLI: search, CRUD, PDF extraction, citation export, and ranked retrieval over collections. Local SQLite for reads, Zotero Web API for writes.

Quick Start

zot search "transformer attention"                      # Search papers
zot --detail minimal search "transformer attention"     # Search papers (minimal output)
zot --detail full search "transformer attention"        # Search papers (full output)
zot --json read ABC123                                  # View paper details (JSON)
zot export ABC123                                       # Export BibTeX
zot --json search --ranked "RLHF" --collection my-collection  # Ranked search scoped to a collection

Critical Rules