ZotLit citations

Start

Complete these steps in order before you answer a citation question.

1. obsidian help zotlit — use only the commands and parameters it reports; commands reject what they do not declare.
2. obsidian zotlit:citations-guide — the installed version's field semantics and workflow.
3. obsidian zotlit:template-status — read identity.source.id from its answer, then pass expect-source=<source-id> on every later call.

Read the guide again after a ZotLit update.

This skill is written against citations CLI Contract version 3 — the contractVersion a cited-by or references answer carries. When an answer reports another number, run zotlit:citations-guide again and follow the live guide over this skill. Step 3 belongs to another namespace: zotlit:template-status reports the Template Workbench's own contract version, which moves on its own.

Target one vault and one Zotero library

Put vault=<vault-name> first when the working directory does not select the vault unambiguously: