Zotero Search Skill

Search and retrieve documents from a local Zotero library using the pyzotero CLI. Extends to Semantic Scholar for discovering related papers, citations, and references beyond the local collection.

Prerequisites

• Zotero desktop application running with local API enabled
• pyzotero CLI installed (pip install pyzotero[cli] or uv tool install "pyzotero[cli]@latest" if they have uv in their $PATH). The Pyzotero version must be >=1.9.0
• Test connection: pyzotero test

Quick Start

If the user has uvx in their path, you can prefix these commands with uvx --from "pyzotero[cli]@latest"

# Basic search
pyzotero search -q "climate change" --json

# Search specific collection
pyzotero search -q "neural" --collection ABC123 --json