Zoteus
Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.
B78/100grade B
Adoption
Growing
41 stars
Reviews
Write oneNobody has reviewed Zoteus yet.
If you have run it, two minutes of your experience saves the next person an afternoon.
Tools
Tool list not cached yet. `describe` through the gateway fetches it live.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.3 · 2026-09-19 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 high1 medium
- Code scan245 source files scanned8/25
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 151ms (auth required)20/20
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (endpoint requires auth); not countedn/a
- Auth qualityOAuth resource metadata advertised on 40115/15
- Maintenancelast push 2 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (2)
- mediumNetwork call to a raw IP address
net.raw-ipdist/api/local-writes.d.ts: …to the same local API the reads use * (http://127.0.0.1:23119/api/users/0/...), gated by a *local* API…
- highShell command built from a string (injection risk)
exec.shell-concatdist/features/search/sqlite-index.js: …F EXISTS passages_fts'); db.exec(` CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE passages_fts USING fts5( text, content='passages', content_rowid='pid', tokenize='${FTS_TOKENIZER}' ); `); …
Overall 78/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
Install directly
claude mcp add --transport http zoteus https://mcp.zoteus.com/mcp
Alternatives to Zoteus
Same job from other publishers, ranked by rating then adoption.
- socraticodeMCP server for enterprise local codebase indexing, semantic search, and code dependency graphs.not reviewedEstablishedC
- SearXNG SearchMCP server for SearXNG — privacy-respecting web search with pagination, URL readingnot reviewedEstablishedB
- pubmed-mcp-serverSearch PubMed/Europe PMC, fetch articles and full text (PMC/EPMC/Unpaywall), citations, MeSH terms.not reviewedEstablishedA
GitHitsSearch public open-source code, documentation, metadata, vulnerabilities, changelogs, and examples.not reviewedEstablishedA- Google Maps MCP Server18 Google Maps tools for AI agents — geocode, search, directions, weather, and more.not reviewedEstablishedB