yilewang/llm-for-zotero
An open-source research agent system for your Zotero library.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 34 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Integrates Large Language Models into Zotero to enable interactive research assistance within your library.
- Provides grounded, citation-linked answers and multi-source context with flexible backend support including local and API-based LLMs.
- Use for summarizing and querying academic papers directly inside Zotero's PDF reader with citation navigation.
- Use for managing and organizing Zotero libraries via Agent Mode with automated tagging, metadata updates, and note writing.
- Use for exporting research notes in Markdown to local folders like Obsidian or Logseq for enhanced knowledge management.
Should you depend on it?
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License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
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From the README
llm-for-zotero brings Large Language Models into the Zotero reader, so you can ask questions, summarize papers, inspect figures, compare sources, and save notes without leaving your library. It works with standard API providers, local OpenAI-compatible models, WebChat, Codex App-Server, and Claude Code.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+462 stars over 46 days across 5 snapshot days; best day +6 on Sep 11.
Forks
199+29
Open issues
209+46
Compared with peers in LLM
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| NVIDIA/auto-ontology | 7.5K | +5.6K | 37 | — |
| HKUDS/DeepTutor | 55.5K | +5.5K | 65 | 5 days ago |
| affaan-m/ECC | 297.9K | +5.2K | 63 | 35 days ago |
| DietrichGebert/ponytail | 185.3K | +5.1K | 60 | 7 days ago |
| yilewang/llm-for-zotero | 3.4K | — | 55 | 3 days ago |
| Category median | 113.6K | +5.5K | 60 | — |
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