zotero-library-curator

zotero-library-curator is a skill for Claude Code from WenyuChiou/research-hub. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only audit tool for a Zotero library, which is a collection of saved academic references and papers. It checks duplicate identifiers, missing tags, collection organization, and tag usage.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to produce reports about duplicate papers, missing tags, overgrown or unused collections, and possible collection moves. It creates preview cleanup plans for another tool or command to apply.
Why use it?
It shows where the library is inconsistent or difficult to maintain without changing anything automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the research-workspace plugin — 13 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to produce reports about duplicate papers, missing tags, overgrown or unused collections, and possible collection moves. It creates preview cleanup plans for another tool or command to apply.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/zotero-library-curator
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 WenyuChiou/research-hub --skill zotero-library-curator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WenyuChiou/research-hub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,690 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 5 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 13
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 36
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 50
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 36
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 51
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00131 $0.01690
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00845
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00169

Measured 13d ago against content hash 911cba2aad68, 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-curator scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 13d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillslowAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

# Claude Code: ls ~/.claude/skills/zotero-skills/SKILL.md

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

skills/zotero-library-curator/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

zotero-library-curator

Sit one layer above the standalone zotero-skills skill. This skill reads the Zotero library, runs audit + hygiene checks, and emits preview plans. It does NOT perform the changes itself.

For any actual create / update / delete operation, defer to:

  • The standalone zotero-skills skill (full CRUD, dual local/web API routing); or
  • The research-hub zotero CLI (backfill --tags --notes [--apply], etc., which is preview-first by default).

Prerequisite check (do this first)

Reading the Zotero library requires a connection. The skill works in two modes:

  1. Read-only audit / preview — needs either zotero-skills (Zotero local API) or the research-hub zotero CLI to inspect items.
  2. Apply cleanup — must defer to zotero-skills or research-hub zotero ... --apply.

Before running, verify at least one is present. The zotero-skills check is host-dependent — adapt to your agent's skills directory:

research-hub doctor 2>/dev/null  # if research-hub CLI installed
# Check whether the zotero-skills sibling skill is installed.
# Claude Code:  ls ~/.claude/skills/zotero-skills/SKILL.md
# Hermes:       ls ~/.hermes/skills/research/zotero-skills/SKILL.md
# Other hosts:  ls <host-skills-dir>/zotero-skills/SKILL.md

If neither is available, the host has loaded these instructions but has no Zotero-capable runtime (research-hub CLI or standalone zotero-skills). Stop and tell them:

This skill audits a Zotero library, which needs Zotero connectivity via one of:

  • The standalone zotero-skills skill (handles Zotero local API). Install via your host's skill installer (e.g. on Claude Code, git clone https://github.com/WenyuChiou/zotero-skills ~/.claude/skills/zotero-skills; on Hermes, hermes skills install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WenyuChiou/zotero-skills/master/SKILL.md).
  • Or the research-hub CLI: pip install research-hub-pipeline

Either path needs Zotero configured (local API on port 23119, or Zotero Web API key). Once one is set up, re-run your audit request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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.

  1. 13d ago First seen · 143 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 911cba2aad68

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zotero-library-curator is a skill published in the GitHub repository WenyuChiou/research-hub (54 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,690 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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