What problem does it solve? Managing academic references, extracting PDF content, and searching large paper collections manually through the Zotero GUI is slow and hard to automate. This Skill lets an agent perform all Zotero operations from the command line, including semantic search over curated paper workspaces. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Library Search & CRUD: Search metadata, read item details, add items by DOI/URL/PDF, update fields, and manage collections, tags, duplicates, and trash. - PDF Extraction & Citations: Extract full text, outlines, sections, tables, and references from PDFs, and export BibTeX/RIS/CSL-JSON or formatted citations (APA, Nature, Vancouver). - Workspace RAG: Build local topic-based workspaces with BM25/semantic/hybrid indexing, then run deep content queries or generate citation-keyed evidence packs with zot ask. - Use Case: While writing a literature review, ask the agent to find papers on a topic, fetch missing PDFs via the desktop bridge, index them into a workspace, and answer questions with citations grounded in the actual paper text. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to search your Zotero library for papers on a topic and export the results as BibTeX.
