zotio

zotio is a skill for Claude Code from OrgMentem/zotio. It costs 142 tokens per session (7,280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line tool for automating a Zotero library. Zotero is an application for collecting and organising research papers, references, PDFs, and annotations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Zotero, create health reports, import papers from PDFs or DOIs, export annotations, and sync a vault.
Why use it?
It makes library searches and changes scriptable, with checks and previews that help catch problems before writing changes. It can also connect research notes with tools such as Obsidian or Logseq.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to search Zotero, create health reports, import papers from PDFs or DOIs, export annotations, and sync a vault.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orgmentem/zotio/zotio
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 OrgMentem/zotio --skill zotio
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrgMentem/zotio

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,280 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 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 $0.00142 $0.07280
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.03640
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01456
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00728

Measured yesterday against content hash bc6dd1e3abe9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zotio 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 yesterday.

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.

SKILL.md · 319 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 319 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

zotio — Zotero automation CLI

Full command tree: ask the CLI at runtime — zotio --help, zotio <command> --help, or zotio agent-context --pretty. Installation, auth, and longer usage live in README.md and the docs site.

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the zotio binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

  1. Install via Homebrew (macOS / Linux):
    brew install orgmentem/tap/zotio
    
    Or download an archive from the releases page and put the binary on your $PATH — the binaries are unsigned, but checksums.txt is Sigstore-signed (checksums.txt.sigstore.json), so verify the archive against it.
  2. Verify: zotio version
  3. From source: go build -o zotio ./cmd/zotio, then put the binary on your $PATH.

If zotio version reports "command not found" after install, the install step did not put the binary on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

This CLI connects directly to your running Zotero desktop app — reads need no API key. Writes (items create/update/delete/enrich, import apply, vault push) generally require a Zotero Web API key, configured once via auth set-token --stdin; personal-library creates can instead go through the keyless desktop connector. Mutating commands are preview-first: every one plans by default and applies only under --yes. --yes is the user's decision, not yours — an agent previews, reports, and waits. Runs applied through the mutation envelope are recorded to the journal, but vault writes bypass it, and journal undo reverses only losslessly invertible ops (tag and collection membership, plus an items new create) and refuses the rest — so a journal entry is an audit record rather than a guarantee of reversibility. See write safety. It syncs your library to a local SQLite store for offline search and compound queries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 319 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. yesterday Changed · +4 lines bc6dd1e3abe9
  2. 7d ago First seen · 315 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 0f7a80c2ff55

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zotio is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrgMentem/zotio (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 7,280 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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