A skill for searching and organizing a Zotero library, a collection of academic papers managed by the Zotero reference tool. It can also support literature reviews and citation-related research.

Use it to find papers, inspect or organize a paper collection, and investigate citations or research topics in Zotero.

It checks that Zotero is installed and configured before attempting library work, avoiding commands that cannot run on an unprepared machine.

zotpilot — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by CHENyiru3

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add CHENyiru3/AI-Skills-Collections --skill zotpilot

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CHENyiru3/AI-Skills-Collections

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/chenyiru3/ai-skills-collections/zotpilot.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,244 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan C 2 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00073	$0.03244
Opus 5.5	$0.00029	$0.01298
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00015	$0.00649
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00324

Measured 6d ago against content hash c0074013f47b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

zotpilot scanned grade C with 2 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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 48 executable files (scripts/platforms.py, scripts/run.py, src/zotpilot/__init__.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Linux/macOS: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Linux/macOS: `curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`

skills-market/writing/literature/zotpilot/SKILL.md · 274 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 274 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ZotPilot

All script paths are relative to this skill's directory.

Step 0: Verify Zotero is installed

Before anything else, check if Zotero is installed on this machine:

macOS: check if /Applications/Zotero.app exists, or if ~/Zotero or ~/Documents/Zotero contains a zotero.sqlite file
Windows: check if C:\Users\<username>\Zotero\zotero.sqlite exists, or ask the user
Linux: check if ~/Zotero/zotero.sqlite exists

If Zotero is NOT installed: Tell the user: "ZotPilot requires Zotero to be installed and have been run at least once. Please download Zotero from https://www.zotero.org/download/, install it, add some papers, then come back." Stop here — do not proceed with setup.

Step 1: Check readiness

Python command: Use python3 on Linux/macOS. On Windows, use python (Windows typically does not have python3 in PATH).

Run: python3 scripts/run.py status --json (Windows: python scripts/run.py status --json)

This auto-installs the ZotPilot CLI if not present. Parse the JSON output and follow the FIRST matching branch:

Command fails entirely → go to Prerequisites
config_exists is false → go to First-Time Setup
errors is non-empty → go to First-Time Setup (note: warnings like API key not in env are OK if key was passed to register — only errors trigger this branch)
index_ready is false or doc_count is 0 → go to Index
All green → go to Research

If any errors or unexpected behavior at any step: run python3 scripts/run.py doctor for detailed diagnostics.

Prerequisites (if run.py fails)

The user needs:

Python 3.10+: python3 --version (Linux/macOS) or python --version (Windows)
uv (package manager):
- Linux/macOS: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
- Windows (PowerShell): powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"
- Any platform: pip install uv
- After installing on Windows, if uv is still not in PATH, that's OK — run.py will detect it automatically via python -m uv

Read the full file on GitHub · 274 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

6d ago First seen · 274 lines · 73 tokens per session scan C c0074013f47b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zotpilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository CHENyiru3/AI-Skills-Collections (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 3,244 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-02.

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