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.
npx skills add crazymsn/academic-skills --skill pyzoterogit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/crazymsn/academic-skillsWrote 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/skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/pyzotero)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/pyzotero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/pyzotero/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/skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/pyzotero"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/crazymsn/academic-skills/pyzotero.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 | $0.00085 | $0.01064 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00043 | $0.00532 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00213 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00106 |
Grade A, and why
pyzotero 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.
This is a copy
97% identical to pyzotero — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Pyzotero
Pyzotero is a Python wrapper for the Zotero API v3. Use it to programmatically manage Zotero libraries: read items and collections, create and update references, upload attachments, manage tags, and export citations.
Authentication Setup
Required credentials — get from https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys:
- User ID: shown as "Your userID for use in API calls"
- API Key: create at https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys/new
- Library ID: for group libraries, the integer after
/groups/in the group URL
Store credentials in environment variables or a .env file:
ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID=your_user_id
ZOTERO_API_KEY=your_api_key
ZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE=user # or "group"
See references/authentication.md for full setup details.
Installation
uv add pyzotero
# or with CLI support:
uv add "pyzotero[cli]"
Quick Start
from pyzotero import Zotero
zot = Zotero(library_id='123456', library_type='user', api_key='ABC1234XYZ')
# Retrieve top-level items (returns 100 by default)
items = zot.top(limit=10)
for item in items:
print(item['data']['title'], item['data']['itemType'])
# Search by keyword
results = zot.items(q='machine learning', limit=20)
# Retrieve all items (use everything() for complete results)
all_items = zot.everything(zot.items())
Core Concepts
- A
Zoteroinstance is bound to a single library (user or group). All methods operate on that library. - Item data lives in
item['data']. Access fields likeitem['data']['title'],item['data']['creators']. - Pyzotero returns 100 items by default (API default is 25). Use
zot.everything(zot.items())to get all items. - Write methods return
Trueon success or raise aZoteroError.
Reference Files
| File | Contents |
|---|---|
| references/authentication.md | Credentials, library types, local mode |
| references/read-api.md | Retrieving items, collections, tags, groups |
| references/search-params.md | Filtering, sorting, search parameters |
| references/write-api.md | Creating, updating, deleting items |
| references/collections.md | Collection CRUD operations |
| references/tags.md | Tag retrieval and management |
| references/files-attachments.md | File retrieval and attachment uploads |
| references/exports.md | BibTeX, CSL-JSON, bibliography export |
| references/pagination.md | follow(), everything(), generators |
| references/full-text.md | Full-text content indexing and retrieval |
| references/saved-searches.md | Saved search management |
| references/cli.md | Command-line interface usage |
| references/error-handling.md | Errors and exception handling |
What ships with it
13 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.
- references/authentication.md 2.2 KB
- references/cli.md 2.2 KB
- references/collections.md 2.5 KB
- references/error-handling.md 2.6 KB
- references/exports.md 2.5 KB
- references/files-attachments.md 2.7 KB
- references/full-text.md 1.7 KB
- references/pagination.md 2.0 KB
- references/read-api.md 2.9 KB
- references/saved-searches.md 2.0 KB
- references/search-params.md 3.0 KB
- references/tags.md 2.0 KB
- references/write-api.md 3.2 KB
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 · 110 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A a2ea54e97fa8
pyzotero is a skill published in the GitHub repository crazymsn/academic-skills (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,064 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to pyzotero, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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