AI Research Agent for Zotero

BibGenie powers your research workflow natively in Zotero.It manages your library, searches, analyzes, and reasons with you

BibGenie AI research agent for Zotero showing a research workflow in the chat interface

Add your Zotero context. Ask grounded research questions. Check traceable citations. Save the result back as notes.

Add Any Zotero Context

Give the agent the exact material it needs

BibGenie can work with Zotero items, PDFs, snapshots, notes, tags, collections, selected text, current pages, images, and screenshots.

Bring your Zotero workspace into the conversation.

Instead of copying research material into a separate chatbot, add the context directly from Zotero and ask BibGenie to work with it.

Type a space followed by @ in the input box to search items, attachments, notes, tags, and collections.

Library Search, OpenAlex & Synthesis

Search your library, discover external papers, and synthesize evidence

BibGenie starts with your Zotero library, then can use OpenAlex for scholarly discovery and Web Search / Web Extract for public pages when needed. Automatic citations help keep local library evidence and external records traceable.

Library search

Find papers by title, author, year, DOI, tag, collection, journal, or conference (keyword search), or by meaning (semantic search).

Deep paper reading

Ask for methods, findings, assumptions, limitations, formulas, figures, and section-level explanations.

OpenAlex academic search

Discover papers, authors, venues, citation neighbors, and research trends beyond your Zotero library.

Traceable citations

Answers can include automatic citations that point back to PDFs, notes, snapshots, web pages, and OpenAlex results.

Save as Zotero note

Turn useful responses into Zotero notes with headings, lists, formulas, code blocks, tables, links, and citations.

BibGenie searching and reading papers in a Zotero library

Library Organization

Agent actions for a cleaner Zotero library

Ask BibGenie to inspect, classify, and organize Zotero items while keeping batch changes reviewable.

Turn research conversations into a better-organized library.

BibGenie can help with tags, collections, metadata checks, and item movement, with preview-first workflows for sensitive changes.

Tag and collection management

Add tags, create collections, move items, and group papers by topic, method, year, or project.

Metadata cleanup

Find missing DOI, abstract, publication title, or other metadata before editing.

Preview-first changes

For batch work, ask for a plan first, review affected items, then explicitly apply changes.

BibGenie organizing a Zotero library with preview-first changes

Models & Privacy

Use recommended models, bring your own key, or run locally

Use BibGenie's official model recommendations out of the box, or connect your own providers and local runtimes.

Choose the model setup that fits your research environment.

Official models are ready to use. Custom models, BYOK providers, Ollama, LM Studio, and compatible endpoints can run through the provider you configure.

Recommended official models

BibGenie maintains tested model/provider combinations suitable for Zotero agent workflows.

BYOK and local models

Use OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Ollama, LM Studio, or compatible endpoints.

Direct data flow

Custom model requests go directly from the local Zotero plugin to the provider you configure.

Official models, BYOK providers, local runtimes, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints can live side by side.

Pricing

Credit-based plans for Zotero-native AI research. Paid plans provide more monthly credits and lower credit consumption for frequent and in-depth research.

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  • OpenAlex and web tools cost 1 credit per successful call
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          AI Research Agent for Zotero

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