Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to BlaineHeffron/zotero-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlaineHeffron/zotero-mcp/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BlaineHeffron/zotero-mcpWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/blaineheffron/zotero-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/blaineheffron/zotero-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/blaineheffron/zotero-mcp/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/blaineheffron/zotero-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/blaineheffron/zotero-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00183 | $0.00183 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00092 | $0.00092 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00037 | $0.00037 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00018 |
Grade A, and why
zotero-mcp AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
zotero-mcp
Capability-honest stdio adapter for Zotero 7.
Minimize code
Ship the feature with the fewest lines. Do not add parallel scopes, policy layers, wrappers, or helpers unless an existing path cannot do the job. Prefer deleting and reusing over extending. Extra code is extra bugs and extra maintenance.
Invariants
- Read through Zotero's loopback GET API. Write only through the authenticated Research Workbench extension.
- Never open
zotero.sqliteor the Zotero data directory. - Accept only the existing loopback URL policy; do not follow redirects or weaken token handling.
- Report unsupported or unavailable capabilities explicitly. Metadata is not full text.
- Automated tests are offline and must never write to a real Zotero library.
Verification
- Run
npm test,npm run typecheck, andnpm run build.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 20 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A a9f24e7fa9a7
zotero-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository BlaineHeffron/zotero-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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