zotero-library-sync

zotero-library-sync is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit. It costs 75 tokens per session (807 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A synchronisation and audit workflow for Zotero, a tool for managing research papers and citations. It checks library metadata, tags, collections, attached PDFs, BibTeX exports, and DOI identifiers, then can prepare items for Obsidian notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review Zotero libraries, clean metadata, check PDF attachments and DOIs, export BibTeX, and sync records into an Obsidian-based research system.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicate, incomplete, or poorly organised literature records and helps keep a research library consistent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to review Zotero libraries, clean metadata, check PDF attachments and DOIs, export BibTeX, and sync records into an Obsidian-based research system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit/zotero-library-sync
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 Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit --skill zotero-library-sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 807 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00075 $0.00807
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7a0e87d72ce4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zotero-library-sync 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.

本地Skills功能分类库/17_Zotero_Obsidian长期知识库Skills/zotero-library-sync/SKILL.md · 133 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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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. 9d ago First seen · 133 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 7a0e87d72ce4

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zotero-library-sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository Drchronx/ai-agent-research-starter-kit (93 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 807 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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