Ground research agents in Zotero libraries with LLM for Zotero
Bring agent-mode paper chat, citation-grounded answers, note saving, tagging, importing, and library-wide research operations into Zotero.
Prerequisites
Zotero 7 or newer, the LLM for Zotero XPI plugin, an LLM backend or local/OpenAI-compatible model, optional Codex App Server or Claude Code bridge
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- npm install -g @openai/codex
- On macOS, you can also use brew install --cask codex. On Windows, install
- git clone https://github.com/jianghao-zhang/cc-llm4zotero-adapter.git
- npm install
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Skills require Agent Mode. They have no effect in standard chat mode.
- The claude command must be on PATH and authenticated.
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
Download the latest .xpi file from the
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yilewang/llm-for-zotero/HEAD/README.md