Sci Zotero

by ShZhao27208

Sci Zotero is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ShZhao27208 in Aut_Sci_Write.

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Install Sci Zotero

Copy Sci Zotero into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write/tree/main/skills/sci-zotero ~/.claude/skills/sci-zotero

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/sci-zotero/SKILL.md in ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/sci-zotero
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3278 skills

What Sci Zotero does

Sci Zotero interacts with a Zotero library to sync references, add citations by DOI/ISBN/PMID, and manage PDFs. Use it when you need to search, add, or fetch items in Zotero.

Sci Zotero is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Sci Zotero comes from a repository tagged academic-research, agent, claude-code, codex and llm-tools.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Sci-Zotero — Zotero Library Integration

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

Triggers

"sync zotero library"
"add citation [identifier]"
"check pdfs in zotero"
"fetch pdfs for zotero items"
"search zotero for [query]"

Usage

This skill wraps the local zotero.py CLI located in the same skill directory.

Configuration (`~/.aut_sci_write/.env`)

ZOTERO_API_KEY: Your Zotero API key.
ZOTERO_USER_ID: Your Zotero User ID (for personal libraries).
ZOTERO_GROUP_ID: Your Zotero Group ID (for group libraries).

Commands

items: List top-level items.
add-doi [DOI]: Add an item by DOI.
add-isbn [ISBN]: Add an item by ISBN.
fetch-pdfs: Automatically find and attach open-access PDFs.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Sci Zotero

What else does ShZhao27208 publish alongside Sci Zotero?
Sci Zotero is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Sci Download, Sci Extract and Sci Figure. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Sci Zotero does, and is maintained by ShZhao27208 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ShZhao27208/Aut_Sci_Write page.
How does Sci Zotero compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Sci Zotero ranks #2924 by stars among the 3278 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Sci Zotero against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.