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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-mcp checkout or installed Python package is available.
  • The local environment can read metadata/fulltext without mutating the Zotero library.

Default fallback sequence

  1. Confirm that MCP transport is the failing layer, not the collection query itself.
  2. Switch to the local Python-backed path for metadata and fulltext retrieval.
  3. Continue creating or updating canonical paper notes.
  4. Run verify_paper_notes.py before closing the batch.

Report explicitly

Always state:

  • that MCP transport failed,
  • that the workflow continued through local fallback,
  • what remained unavailable, if anything.