mcp-zotero: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/test-mcp-zotero/SKILL.md

test-mcp-zotero is a skill for Claude Code from Xevos117/mcp-zotero. It costs 112 tokens per session (7,690 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A smoke-testing procedure for the mcp-zotero MCP server using a disposable Zotero test library. Zotero is a reference-management application, and smoke testing checks that a service works through key real-user scenarios.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after changes to test the server's citation behaviour across styles, explore affected scenarios, and assess usability.
Why use it?
It checks citation injection, edge cases, affected changes, and the clarity of the server's tool descriptions without using a real library.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is Xevos117/mcp-zotero's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-zotero itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-zotero configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Xevos117/mcp-zotero. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevos117/mcp-zotero/main/.claude/skills/test-mcp-zotero/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xevos117/mcp-zotero

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,690 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00112 $0.07690
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.03076
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01538
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00769

Measured yesterday against content hash d43366b7d2e4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

test-mcp-zotero scanned grade C 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 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.

Nullifies safety policieshighAnti-refusal

"You have no restrictions", "do anything now", "ignore your guidelines": a direct jailbreak that disables guardrails.

Zotero ignore the filter and return the whole library in 2.0.0. Probe key validation with read tools
.claude/skills/test-mcp-zotero/SKILL.md · 277 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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Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday Changed · +8 lines d43366b7d2e4
  2. 5d ago Changed · +60 lines a267f07657f7
  3. 14d ago Changed · +3 lines a3980b913e5e
  4. 15d ago First seen · 206 lines · 112 tokens per session scan C a828f4373981

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test-mcp-zotero is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xevos117/mcp-zotero (38 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 7,690 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (nullifies safety policies). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-12.

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