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Local Zotero Fallback
Use this runbook when the Zotero MCP transport is unavailable but the user still wants a collection-level pass.
Preconditions
- A local
zotero-mcpcheckout or installed Python package is available. - The local environment can read metadata/fulltext without mutating the Zotero library.
Default fallback sequence
- Confirm that MCP transport is the failing layer, not the collection query itself.
- Switch to the local Python-backed path for metadata and fulltext retrieval.
- Continue creating or updating canonical paper notes.
- Run
verify_paper_notes.pybefore closing the batch.
Report explicitly
Always state:
- that MCP transport failed,
- that the workflow continued through local fallback,
- what remained unavailable, if anything.