Read-only Zotero research

Follow the user's language. Zotero is strictly GET-only: never create, edit, tag, move, or delete library data.

Workflow

1. Use zotero_collections to list collections, read one collection, or list its top-level items.
2. Use zotero_search with DOI first, then distinctive title terms. Omit query or use * to browse; bound limit and pagination.
3. Match normalized DOI first. Otherwise compare normalized title, year, and first author. Report ambiguity instead of guessing.
4. Use zotero_item with mode=item for metadata-only work. Use mode=aggregate only when notes, annotations, attachments, indexed text, or PDF selection are needed.
5. If several PDFs are available, list their attachment keys and filenames and ask the user to confirm one attachmentKey before parsing or synchronizing. Never assume similarly named attachments are equivalent.
6. Treat unavailable or truncated indexed text as incomplete evidence, not an empty paper.
7. For necessary structured content, call omnischolar_parse directly after MinerU is configured and the selected PDF upload is authorized. The parse call checks cache or uploads before publication checks.
8. Use omnischolar_sync action=plan for an explicit managed-output synchronization decision, not as a mandatory parse preflight. missing, excluded, conflict, and recovery_required each retain their explicit publication workflow.

If Zotero is unavailable, ask the user to start Zotero and enable local application access. Keep http://127.0.0.1:23119/api on the local machine. If a local item is absent, use scholar-search only when online discovery matches the request.