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Zotero agent skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 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/ | 51k | — | ~8.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 4 days ago |
| 3 | Export paper from CNKI and push to Zotero, or save as RIS file. | cookjohn/ | 978 | 2 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 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/ | 5.3k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 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/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 days ago |
| 6 | Generate a high-quality deep-reading note for a single paper and write it into an Obsidian-style vault. | 917Dhj/ | 1.2k | 1 repo | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 3 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/ | 428 | 1 repo | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 3 mo ago |
| 8 | Search and manage private, local document collections (PDF, PPTX, DOCX) offline. | docsagent/ | 625 | — | ~834 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 9 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/ | 161 | 1 repo | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 29 days ago |
| 10 | 10.Zotero 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/ | 199 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 11 | Search and cite from local BibTeX/BibLaTeX .bib libraries, including Zotero exports. | bahayonghang/ | 494 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 9 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/ | 545 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | 1 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/ | 367 | — | ~7k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 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/ | 128 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 15 | Build evidence-aware bilingual literature reviews and interactive dashboards from a local Zotero library or a new topic search. | xuezheng627/ | 102 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 16 | Domain-configurable Zotero-to-Obsidian literature curation and paper close-reading skill. | ganzoth/ | 159 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 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/ | 139 | — | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 18 | Generate academic research proposals for PhD applications. An agent skill from LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills. | LeonChaoX/ | 937 | 2 repos | ~4.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 19 | Summarize, organize, and normalize messy research materials into an IEEE-ready writing brief before manuscript drafting. | CloudWave818/ | 353 | — | ~924 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 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/ | 329 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 21 | Full-featured CLI for Zotero reference management. An agent skill from PiaoyangGuohai1/cli-anything-zotero. | PiaoyangGuohai1/ | 137 | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 2 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/ | 5.7k | 3 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 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/ | 292 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 days ago |
| 24 | 24.Pyzotero Interact with Zotero reference management libraries using the pyzotero Python client. | agent-skills-hub/ | 111 | 4 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 5 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/ | 46k | 2 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 26 | 26.Gs Export Export Google Scholar paper(s) to Zotero via BibTeX. An agent skill from cookjohn/gs-skills. | cookjohn/ | 523 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 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/ | 122 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 6 mo ago |
| 28 | Write a user-facing changelog entry under apps/docs/content/changelog/. | aidenlx/ | 1k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 234 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 5 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/ | 1k | — | ~3.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 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/ | 5.7k | — | ~514 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 32 | Access and configure a user's local or cloud Zotero library without MCP by executing the bundled JSON CLI. | Bubble-OoO/ | 117 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | No licence | 1 mo ago |
| 33 | 33.Scholar RAG Build and query a local vector database + GraphRAG over your entire reference library (Zotero or a PDF folder) for literature review. | joshzyj/ | 167 | — | ~7.4k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 19 days ago |
| 34 | 34.Gap Analysis 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/ | 134 | — | ~932 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 35 | 35.Export 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/ | 576 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 36 | 36.Import 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/ | 576 | — | ~790 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 12 days ago |
| 37 | Ground truth from the running Zotero plugin over RDP. An agent skill from aidenlx/zotlit. | aidenlx/ | 1k | — | ~754 | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 38 | 38.Pyzotero 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/ | 48k | 1 repo | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 39 | Conduct a systematic literature review that maps the current landscape of a research question. | joshzyj/ | 167 | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 19 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/ | 1k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| 41 | 41.Sci Zotero Interact with your Zotero library to sync references, add citations by DOI/ISBN/PMID, and manage PDFs. | ShZhao27208/ | 207 | — | ~452 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 1 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/ | 4.5k | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 2 days ago |
| 43 | 43.Lit Sync A skill your agent uses when references in a .bib file (often from /search-lit) should land in Zotero and Obsidian. | Aperivue/ | 329 | — | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 44 | A skill your agent uses when managing a manuscript project over time. | Aperivue/ | 329 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 45 | 45.Manage Refs A skill your agent uses when references must be written, rendered or converted. | Aperivue/ | 329 | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 46 | Communications-domain literature review with Claude-style knowledge-base-first retrieval. | AI4Scientist/ | 128 | 5 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 47 | 47.Setup Medsci A skill your agent uses when a skill fails for a missing tool or the environment needs checking. | Aperivue/ | 329 | — | ~960 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 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/ | 2k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | 20 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.