cli-anything-zotero

cli-anything-zotero is an agent-native CLI for Zotero desktop. It does not reimplement Zotero. Instead, it composes Zotero's real local surfaces:

Installation

pip install -e .

Entry Points

cli-anything-zotero
python -m cli_anything.zotero

Important Constraints

• search items, item export, item citation, and item bibliography require Zotero's Local API to be enabled.
• note add depends on the live Zotero GUI context and expects the same library to be selected in the app.
• Import-time PDF attachment support is limited to items created in the same connector session; arbitrary existing-item attachment upload is still out of scope.
• Experimental SQLite write commands are local-only, user-library-only, and should be treated as non-stable power-user operations.
• If a bare key is duplicated across libraries, set session use-library <id> before follow-up commands.

Command Groups

App

Application and runtime inspection commands.

Command	Description
status	Execute status.
version	Execute version.
launch	Execute launch.
enable-local-api	Execute enable-local-api.
ping	Execute ping.

Collection

Collection inspection and selection commands.

Command	Description
list	Execute list.
find	Execute find.
tree	Execute tree.
get	Execute get.
items	Execute items.
use-selected	Execute use-selected.
create	Execute create.

Item

Item inspection and rendering commands.