Prompts (Workflows)
Seven MCP Prompts — user-triggered scholarly workflows exposed as slash commands that orchestrate the zotero_* tools for common research tasks.
Zoteus ships MCP Prompts — user-triggered scholarly workflows that hosts expose as slash commands. They orchestrate the zotero_* tools for common research tasks.
| Prompt | Arguments | What it does |
|---|---|---|
zotero-literature-review | topic, collection? | Search + read + synthesize a cited mini-review. |
zotero-cite | item_keys, style? | Format a bibliography for specific items in a style. |
zotero-add-from-url | source, collection? | Ingest a paper from a URL/DOI/ISBN/PMID/arXiv. |
zotero-organize | collection? | Suggest tags and collection moves for loose items. |
zotero-find-related | item_key | Find related & citing work (library + scholarly graph). |
zotero-citation-audit | text | Check a draft's citations against the library/literature. |
zotero-summarize-collection | collection | Summarize a collection's themes and gaps. |
Each prompt returns a templated instruction message that guides the model to use the right tools (e.g. zotero_semantic_search, zotero_get_item, zotero_bibliography). They are read-only by themselves — any writes happen through the tools, with the usual safety gates.
Full-text Grounding, Tag Audit & BBT Export
Retrieve PDF passages with page locators for grounding, audit tag hygiene against a controlled vocabulary, and export with Better BibTeX formatting.
Code Execution with MCP
Use progressive tool discovery and generated TypeScript wrappers to write agent scripts that keep large intermediate results in a sandbox and surface only the final answer.