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Zotero agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.

Free reference manager for collecting, citing and organising research sources.
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Reference guidance for checking every citation in academic writing against canonical sources such as DOI, arXiv, CrossRef and Semantic Scholar, to catch fake or wrong references.

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar5.7k3 repos~1.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
2

Screens records for systematic, scoping and rapid reviews against fixed eligibility rules, using two blinded AI reviewers and a third adjudicator, with traceable PRISMA counts.

Imbad0202/academic-research-skills51k—~8.4kAutomated safety check: PassUnknown4 days ago
3

Export paper from CNKI and push to Zotero, or save as RIS file.

cookjohn/cnki-skills9782 repos~1.7kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence6 mo ago
4

Reads and edits a Zotero library from the shell with zotero-cli: search by keyword or meaning, read PDF text, manage tags, notes and collections, and export bibliographies.

54yyyu/zotero-mcp5.3k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMITtoday
5

A skill your agent uses when building reusable Obsidian glossary notes from an existing paper source manifest, optionally with a raw-sections override, especially when a reader needs a reviewed…

917Dhj/DeepPaperNote1.2k1 repo~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
6

Generate a high-quality deep-reading note for a single paper and write it into an Obsidian-style vault.

917Dhj/DeepPaperNote1.2k1 repo~5.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT3 days ago
7

Writes the research-status literature review and critique section of an NSFC grant proposal, backed by a bundled multi-source literature search.

HuiyuLi-2000/Chinese-Grant-Writer-Skills4281 repo~1.4kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT3 mo ago
8

Search and manage private, local document collections (PDF, PPTX, DOCX) offline.

docsagent/docsagent625—~834Automated safety check: PassNo licence9 days ago
9

Add strict Nature/CNS citations to manuscript text by splitting long passages into citable segments, searching only accepted flagship and subjournal titles from Nature Portfolio, the AAAS Science…

jing1312/nature-figure-skill1611 repo~3.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT29 days ago
10

Use Zotero Desktop to enable/probe the local API, search a local Zotero library, list items/collections/tags, export BibTeX, insert citation keys into LaTeX or Markdown drafts, read indexed full…

congcongwang0122/zotero-skill199—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence1 mo ago
11

Search and cite from local BibTeX/BibLaTeX .bib libraries, including Zotero exports.

bahayonghang/academic-writing-skills494—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence9 days ago
12

Quick reference for wdoc, a command-line and Python tool that summarizes, searches and answers questions over documents of many file types.

thiswillbeyourgithub/wdoc545—~1.1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.01 mo ago
13

Helps draft, diagnose, review and revise social science papers, from topic and research question to literature review, citation risks and pre-submission checks.

fakerqwq/social-science-paper-writing-skill367—~7kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence4 mo ago
14

Load when the user asks to convert an academic LaTeX manuscript, thesis, or report into an editable Word DOCX, adapt it to a Word template, preserve citations or cross-references, or diagnose a…

hajimi-kun/latex-to-word-workflow128—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
15

Build evidence-aware bilingual literature reviews and interactive dashboards from a local Zotero library or a new topic search.

xuezheng627/zotero-literature-visualizer102—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
16

Domain-configurable Zotero-to-Obsidian literature curation and paper close-reading skill.

ganzoth/zotero-taxonomy-curator159—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
17

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to batch-download academic PDFs with ref-downloader — either ALL references of one paper (Mode A: DOI or PDF input), OR a custom batch of papers (Mode B…

ltczding-gif/ref-downloader139—~5.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT4 mo ago
18

Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications. An agent skill from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills.

LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills9372 repos~4.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
19

Summarize, organize, and normalize messy research materials into an IEEE-ready writing brief before manuscript drafting.

CloudWave818/ieee-skills353—~924Automated safety check: PassMIT1 mo ago
20

A skill your agent uses when turning a folder of research PDFs into Obsidian notes, even if Obsidian is not named.

Aperivue/medsci-skills329—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
21

Full-featured CLI for Zotero reference management. An agent skill from PiaoyangGuohai1/cli-anything-zotero.

PiaoyangGuohai1/cli-anything-zotero137—~2.6kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.02 mo ago
22

This skill should be used when the user asks to "brainstorm research ideas", "use 5W1H framework", "identify research gaps", "conduct gap analysis", "start research project", "conduct literature…

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar5.7k3 repos~2.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
23

ResearchVault 文献知识问题的默认检索技能。先从当前 Vault 的 Analytical Notes 定位相关论文,再按需要定向进入对应 Fulltext,必要时回到 Zotero PDF 验证。若用户明确要求基于当前项目文件检索,优先执行严格的项目文件检索后再回答。纯 Skill、代码、Git、文件整理和转换工具调试任务不自动触发文献检索。

cheneternity/Research-Vault-Literature-Retrieval292—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence7 days ago
24

Interact with Zotero reference management libraries using the pyzotero Python client.

agent-skills-hub/agent-skills-hub1114 repos~1.1kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT5 days ago
25

Cross-checks each academic reference against several sources field by field, flags conflicts such as year, DOI, author order and page errors, and outputs a structured report.

Yuan1z0825/nature-skills46k2 repos~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassApache-2.0today
26

Export Google Scholar paper(s) to Zotero via BibTeX. An agent skill from cookjohn/gs-skills.

cookjohn/gs-skills523—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT6 mo ago
27

Exports Web of Science records into Zotero directly, or to RIS, BibTeX, Excel and plain-text files through the site's export menu.

cookjohn/wos-skills122—~1kAutomated safety check: PassNo licence6 mo ago
28

Write a user-facing changelog entry under apps/docs/content/changelog/.

aidenlx/zotlit1k—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
29

中文文献检索、筛选、批量采集和合法全文获取助手。用于用户需要查找论文、下载可合法获取的 PDF/HTML/XML 全文、生成关键词和检索式、查询 DOI/PMID、筛选高影响因子或高分区期刊、检查开放获取、做引用链扩展、批量文献候选表、下载日志、去重清单、Zotero/BibTeX 整理,或解决文献难下载问题;禁止绕过付费墙、盗版下载、共享账号或规避版权限制。

Lucaswangzcx/literature-downloader-skill234—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT5 mo ago
30

Build, audit, authorize, recover, or finalize dynamic Zotero citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word DOCX files with a protected-source, digest-bound workflow.

xuzhougeng/wisp-science1k—~3.7kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
31

Moves papers from Zotero into an Obsidian project knowledge base as source notes, literature synthesis and writing outputs, with evidence records behind every promoted claim.

Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar5.7k—~514Automated safety check: PassMIT14 days ago
32

Access and configure a user's local or cloud Zotero library without MCP by executing the bundled JSON CLI.

Bubble-OoO/zotero-research-assistant-skill117—~1.2kAutomated safety check: WarnNo licence1 mo ago
33

Build and query a local vector database + GraphRAG over your entire reference library (Zotero or a PDF folder) for literature review.

joshzyj/open-scholar-skill167—~7.4kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown19 days ago
34

A skill your agent uses when the user asks to analyze research gaps, find research gaps, generate research ideas, or analyze papers for gaps.

xujingchen1996/research-app-toolkit134—~932Automated safety check: PassMIT2 mo ago
35

A skill your agent uses when the user needs BibTeX, RIS, Markdown reference lists, filtered citation exports, custom citation styles, or a Markdown-to-DOCX export for sharing.

ZimoLiao/scholaraio576—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT12 days ago
36

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to import papers from Endnote XML/RIS, Zotero Web API or local SQLite, attach PDFs, match PDFs to records, or supplement records with PDF content.

ZimoLiao/scholaraio576—~790Automated safety check: PassMIT12 days ago
37

Ground truth from the running Zotero plugin over RDP. An agent skill from aidenlx/zotlit.

aidenlx/zotlit1k—~754Automated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
38

Manages Zotero reference libraries using the pyzotero Python client: retrieves, creates, updates, and deletes items, collections, tags, and attachments via the Zotero Web API v3 or local API.

K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills48k1 repo~2kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT2 days ago
39

Conduct a systematic literature review that maps the current landscape of a research question.

joshzyj/open-scholar-skill167—~14kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown19 days ago
40

Answer citation questions about an Obsidian vault through ZotLit: which notes cite a work, what a document cites, and why a citation is broken.

aidenlx/zotlit1k—~1kAutomated safety check: PassAGPL-3.0today
41

Interact with your Zotero library to sync references, add citations by DOI/ISBN/PMID, and manage PDFs.

ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write207—~452Automated safety check: NotesMIT1 mo ago
42

Recommend AND run open-source AI tools, agents, Claude Code / Codex skills, and MCP servers for any stage of a literature review — searching, reading, extracting, synthesizing, screening…

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.5k—~2.5kAutomated safety check: NotesUnknown2 days ago
43

A skill your agent uses when references in a .bib file (often from /search-lit) should land in Zotero and Obsidian.

Aperivue/medsci-skills329—~4.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
44

A skill your agent uses when managing a manuscript project over time.

Aperivue/medsci-skills329—~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
45

A skill your agent uses when references must be written, rendered or converted.

Aperivue/medsci-skills329—~4.1kAutomated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
46

Communications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval.

AI4Scientist/nano-scientist1285 repos~2.2kAutomated safety check: NotesNo licence4 mo ago
47

A skill your agent uses when a skill fails for a missing tool or the environment needs checking.

Aperivue/medsci-skills329—~960Automated safety check: PassMIT2 days ago
48

Compare experimental method details between two Zotero PDF papers, identify protocol differences (ratios, dosages, timing, conditions), search supporting literature to explain why they differ, and…

aipoch/medical-research-skills2k—~3.3kAutomated safety check: NotesMIT20 days ago

Questions, answered from the data.

What is the best Zotero skill?

Citation Verification Guide from Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar ranks first of the 93 Zotero skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 5.7k GitHub stars, 3 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 1.9k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Systematic Review Screener and Cnki Export.

Is there an official Zotero skill?

None yet. All 93 Zotero skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.

How are these skills ranked?

By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.