Zotero AI Butler Guide

Overview

Zotero AI Butler is a Zotero plugin that uses LLMs to summarize, analyze, and annotate academic papers directly within Zotero. It can generate structured summaries, extract key findings, compare papers, and answer questions about documents — all without leaving the reference manager. Supports multiple LLM backends (OpenAI, Claude, local models).

Installation

# Download .xpi from GitHub releases
# Zotero 7: Tools → Add-ons → Install Add-on From File

Configuration

### LLM Backend Setup (Preferences → AI Butler)

**Option 1: OpenAI**