{"repo":"yuanjua/chiken","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/yuanjua/chiken","clone":"git clone https://github.com/yuanjua/chiken.git","description":"💡✨ Zotero, RAG, MCP, and deep research","language":"Python","stars":89,"topics":["agent","mcp","ollama","python","rag","research","tauri","typescript","zotero"],"license":"MIT","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"ChiKen ChiKen is your private, AI-powered research assistant that transforms your Zotero library into an interactive knowledge base. ✨ Features ChiKen connects your Zotero library to LLM clients like Claude Desktop through RAG and MCP . Just make a few clicks, your AI clients are ready to search over your documents. ChiKen chat interface offers three agents to interact with your research: Chat for conversational Q&A with your documents, Search for searching papers online, and Deep Research for comprehensive multi-source investigations that combine your personal library with web search to generate detailed research reports. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/983e3e05-6f37-46ba-a19e-69f7207c4e83 💫 Quick Start Download and install ChiKen from Releases for your platform. PDF and plain text work out of the box; other formats require Pandoc 2+. Zotero 7+ is also required for enabling local API. We recommend Ollama for local LLMs—easy setup for chat and embeddings. Works well with ollama/gemma3:27b . For now this is the only recommended and tested model. You can then expose your knowledge bases to advanced LLM clients like Claude Desktop through the built-in MCP server. All data stays local. API keys are stored in your OS keychain:❓You may see prompts asking for keyring access; knowledge bases live on your disk. For more detailed instructions, see: - Getting Started Guide - Claude MCP Setup (with demo) - Built-in Agents: Chat, Search, Deep Research 🗺️ What's Next ChiKen co","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/yuanjua","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/yuanjua/chiken/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}