mcp-server-zotero-dev MCP Server

MCP server enabling AI assistants to build, test, and debug Zotero plugins

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Published as @introfini/mcp-server-zotero-dev on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 5.

Most discussed

zotero_db_query always fails: "result.columns.join is not a function"

Summary

zotero_db_query fails on every query, including trivial ones. zotero_db_schema is affected by the same underlying cause. Two independent defects are involved — either one alone is sufficient to break the tool.

Environment

Minimal reproduction

With Zotero running and the RDP br

Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

openListener() reports success when another process holds the port; health check then reopens every 10s forever

Summary

When another process already holds the RDP port, openListener() reports success — at startup and on every health-check reopen — while the bridge is not actually serving. The plugin's internal notion of "listening" stays wrong for as long as the conflict lasts, and the health check reopens on a 10s loop indefinitely.

Why it happens

SocketListener.open() does not reject when the port is already bound (Mozilla server sockets set SO_REUSEADDR; on Windows a second bind is a

Read the thread · 2026-07-31 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

MCP tool surface audit: add safety/trigger language for execute, scaffold, and log tools

Hi, I ran a deterministic MCP tool-surface audit against the Zotero dev MCP tool definitions and found a few places where description and profile hints could improve agent safety.

Scope: static audit from packages/mcp-server/src/tools/*.ts, not a live runtime test.

Summary

• 25 tools detected.
• Average discoverability score: 75/100.
• Lowest-scoring tools: 56/100.
• 4 of 25 tools score below 60.
• 25 of 25 tools are missing explicit "Use when" trigger language.
• 12 write tools lack exp

Read the thread · 2026-06-21 · closed · external user · 2 comments

evaluateJS silently re-executes side effects after connection drops; pending requests hang 30s on socket close

Summary

Two related reply-loss problems in RDPClient (packages/mcp-server/src/rdp/client.ts):

1. evaluateJS re-sends the same code after a connection error. A connection drop loses the reply, not necessarily the request — evaluateJSAsync may already have executed in Zotero. The blind resend then runs the code's side effects twice. This is dangerous for non-idempotent tool calls (zotero_plugin_install, UI mutations, DB-adjacent scripts).

2. **handleClose() leaves pending r

Read the thread · 2026-06-10 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

RDP client frames outbound packets with UTF-16 char count — non-ASCII payloads corrupt the stream

Summary

RDPClient.sendMessage() (packages/mcp-server/src/rdp/client.ts) frames outbound packets with

const packet = `${json.length}:${json}`;

but the RDP <length>:<json> prefix is the UTF-8 byte length, and json.length is the UTF-16 character count. Any non-ASCII character in an outbound payload (emoji or accented text inside zotero_execute_js code, search strings, etc.) understates the length: the receiving transport reads a truncated JSON document, the stream desy

Read the thread · 2026-06-10 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

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