ZotSeek

ZotSeek | AI-Powered Semantic Search & MCP Server for Zotero

Find similar papers by **meaning**, not just keywords. 100% local, no data leaves your machine. Now with a built-in **MCP server** for AI agents.

**Status:** ✅ Stable release · Zotero 8, 9 & 10 · Transformers.js running locally

**New:** 🤖 **MCP server built in** — Claude Code, Codex, and any MCP client can search your library and cite papers with links that open straight to the matched PDF page. Fully local, read-only, opt-in. [Set it up in one line →](docs/MCP.md)

**New from the same author:** 🔎 [**citefact**](https://github.com/hearthresearch/citefact) — audit your manuscript against your Zotero library: citations exist, quotes are verbatim, claims are supported.


Features

• 🔒 100% Local - No data sent to cloud, works completely offline
• 🧠 True Semantic Search - Find papers by meaning, not just keywords
• 🤖 AI Agent Access (MCP) - Let Claude Code and other MCP clients search your library, fully local and opt-in (docs)
• 🔍 Find Similar Documents - Right-click any paper → discover related research
• 📖 Search from PDF Selection - Select text while reading → right-click → find documents about that concept
• 🔎 Natural Language Search - Search with queries like "machine learning in healthcare"
• 🔀 Multi-Query Search - Combine up to 4 queries with AND/OR logic to find topic intersections
• 🔗 Hybrid Search - Combines AI + keyword search for best results
• ⚡ Lightning Fast - Searches complete in <100ms
• 📑 Section-Aware - See which section matched (Abstract, Methods, Results)
• 📄 Matched-Passage Preview - Hover a result to read the exact passage that matched, with query terms highlighted
• 📍 Passage-Level Location - Jump to exact page & paragraph in Full Document mode
• ✅ Multi-Select in Results - Select multiple search results, right-cli