zotero-research-library

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By ma08/botfiles (GitHub) · research · 29 stars · scanned at commit 0009976

Work with a Zotero research library for paper-reading workflows: search local items, inspect metadata, read attached PDFs, export notes/highlights/annotations, summarize a user's reading state, create child notes via Zotero Web API when explicitly requested, and troubleshoot Zotero Connector/API issues. Use when the user asks Codex to interact with Zotero, read Zotero annotations, make reading digests, manage paper notes/tags/attachments, or investigate whether agent-assisted Zotero edits are p…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this.

Found in 3 places.

claude/skills/zotero-research-library/SKILL.md, line 45python3 "$CODEX_HOME/skills/zotero-research-library/scripts/zotero_read.py" --db "$HOME/Zotero/zotero.sqlite" search "SABER"
claude/skills/zotero-research-library/SKILL.md, line 52ssh sourya-mac 'python3 /path/to/zotero_read.py --db "$HOME/Zotero/zotero.sqlite" digest --item-key ITEMKEY'
claude/skills/zotero-research-library/SKILL.md, line 58ZOTERO_API_KEY=... ZOTERO_USER_ID=... \

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 3 places.

claude/skills/zotero-research-library/scripts/zotero_web_note.py, line 15import urllib.request
claude/skills/zotero-research-library/scripts/zotero_web_note.py, line 28req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, method=method)
claude/skills/zotero-research-library/scripts/zotero_web_note.py, line 34with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'zotero-research-library' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'zotero-research-library' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named zotero-research-library already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/ma08/botfiles' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '00099765c7700fd71f0257fa7274c2e4a0248fc1' -- 'claude/skills/zotero-research-library' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'claude/skills/zotero-research-library' ~/.agents/skills/'zotero-research-library' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'zotero-research-library' ~/.claude/skills/'zotero-research-library' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-12	`0009976`	90

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Identical copies of this skill exist at:

ma08/botfiles/codex/skills/zotero-research-library