Seerai
Zotero AI plugin Research assistant for Zotero 9. Chat with your library, run federated scholarly search, RAG, OCR, systematic reviews, and manage cloud storage…
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No install snippet on purpose. A working MCP config is a command, its arguments and an environment block — the last two are where API keys live, so this catalogue never stores them and cannot publish them. Follow the link above for the authors' own instructions.
seerai is an intelligent research assistant plugin for Zotero 9/10 that integrates AI-powered chat, advanced search, structured data extraction, and systematic review workflows directly into your research workflow. Chat with your papers, extract structured data, run PRISMA-style reviews, and accelerate your literature review with a local-first, privacy-focused design.
Installation
From GitHub (Recommended)
- Download the latest release (
.xpifile) from Releases. - In Zotero, go to Tools → Add-ons.
- Click the gear icon ⚙️ and select Install Add-on From File....
- Select the downloaded
.xpifile. - Restart Zotero.
From Source
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/dralkh/seerai.git
cd seerai
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Build the plugin
npm run build
# The .xpi file will be generated in the root directory
Features
AI-Powered Chat Interface
- Contextual Conversations: Chat with AI about your selected papers with full context awareness.
- Smart Context Priority: Automatically prioritizes content sources:
- Zotero Notes (OCR note, and other notes for highest priority)
- Indexed PDF Text (Fast, efficient, however consumes a lot of tokens and may cause limit issues)
- OCR (Fallback for scanned documents with no indexed text)
- Multi-paper Support: Add multiple papers to a single conversation for comparative analysis.
- Streaming Responses: Real-time, token-by-token response rendering.
- Markdown & Math: Responses are formatted with syntax highlighting and LaTeX math support.
- Vision Support: Paste images directly into chat for multimodal analysis.
- Multimodal Generation: Generate images, videos, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech directly from chat.
- Attachments Upload: Add files to conversations via the context menu.
- Interactive Follow-ups: Deepen the conversation with streaming follow-up questions.
- Configurable Citations: Choose your preferred citation style for AI insights and chat.
- Smart Copy: Select and copy text with preserved formatting (Markdown) directly from chat bubbles.
- Enhanced Keybindings:
Enter: Insert new lineShift+Enter: Send messageCtrl+Shift+S: Toggle/Focus detachable window
- Detachable Window: Pop out the SeerAI interface into a standalone resizable floating window to maintain chat access while navigating your library.
- Themed UI: Enhanced dialogs and components with full theme support for a consistent look across Zotero's Light and Dark modes.
- Responsive Layout: Chat, tables, and search tabs dynamically adapt to panel width changes.
Semantic Search & Discovery
From the project's README.