zotero-fulltext-mcp: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

zotero-fulltext-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-mcp. It costs 1,892 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for zotero-fulltext-mcp, a tool that converts linked PDF attachments from a Zotero research library into Markdown and provides full-text search through an MCP server and command-line tool. It also documents configuration, project structure, data safety, and development commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing, testing, configuring, or troubleshooting the zotero-fulltext-mcp project and its zotero-pdf-text command-line tool.
Why use it?
It helps coding agents work on the project without confusing repository files with a researcher's private Zotero data or violating the project's configuration rules.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-mcp's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on zotero-fulltext-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything zotero-fulltext-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-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.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-mcp/master/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-mcp

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

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When invoked 1,892 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01892 $0.01892
Opus 5 $0.00946 $0.00946
Sonnet 5 $0.00378 $0.00378
Haiku 4.5 $0.00189 $0.00189

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2761694fef1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zotero-fulltext-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 8d 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.

AGENTS.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for agents working in this repository.

Project Shape

This is a standalone, publishable project: a read-only-by-default pipeline that converts a Zotero library's linked PDF attachments to Markdown, builds a sidecar full-text search index, and exposes it through an MCP server (zotero-fulltext-mcp) plus a CLI (zotero-pdf-text).

  • Source package: src/zotero_pdf_text.
  • Tests: tests.
  • Docs: docs (architecture, data dictionary, ingestion, operations, troubleshooting, debug-bridge setup).
  • User-facing install/setup instructions: README.md.

This repository never contains anyone's actual Zotero data. A researcher's converted Markdown, FTS index, linked PDFs, and Zotero SQLite database all live in a separate location of their own choosing, referenced only through a config file. config.example.json is the only config file that belongs in this repo; real configs (config.json, config.<hostname>.json) are gitignored and must never be committed.

Configuration Contract

Do not invent a new config system — reuse what exists in src/zotero_pdf_text/config.py:

  • ProjectConfig (frozen dataclass): zotero_root, zotero_data_directory, linked_attachments, output_root, plus tuning fields.
  • resolve_config_path() resolution order: ZOTERO_PDF_TEXT_CONFIG env var → config.<hostname>.json (via platform.node()) next to cwd → config.json.
  • validate_config() checks that all referenced paths exist on disk.

Because this repo's code and a researcher's config/data are expected to live in different locations (the code is a git clone, the data is wherever they keep their Zotero workspace), do not assume the config file lives next to the source tree. Prefer explicit --config/--db CLI arguments or the ZOTERO_PDF_TEXT_CONFIG env var over cwd-relative assumptions. The install-mcp CLI command (cli.py:_install_mcp) already generates MCP client registrations with both --db and --config baked in explicitly for exactly this reason — follow that pattern in any new code path that launches the server or CLI programmatically.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

Changes

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.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 142 lines · 1,892 tokens per session scan A 2761694fef1b

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zotero-fulltext-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository matthiaskloft/zotero-fulltext-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,892 tokens to every session, about $0.0095 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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