Marginalia AI Chat
By sheny-bio marginalia 21 GitHub Stars
Adds an AI chat panel to the PDF reader for asking about the open paper with its full text as context, translates selected text into Chinese, and lets the AI search a linked collection; needs an OpenAI-compatible API URL and key.
Index categories: AI assistants, Translation and dictionaries, Notes and annotations
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Zotero compatibility
For version 3.3.4, the release the index read
| Zotero | Declared | Start test | User reports |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Does not declare Zotero 10 | Not tested | None yet |
| 9 | Does not declare Zotero 9 | Not tested | None yet |
| 8 | Declares all of Zotero 8 | Started Zotero 8.0.4 | None yet |
| 7 | Declares all of Zotero 7 | Started Zotero 7.0.32 | None yet |
Declared range: Zotero 6.999 to 8.*. How the index reads plugins
Tried version 3.3.4 on Zotero? Report what you found:
Details
- Plugin id
marginalia@anthropic.com- Manifest description
- Zotero AI 聊天助手，支持与论文和批注进行智能对话
- GitHub description
- Marginalia 是一个为 Zotero 设计的 AI 聊天插件，让你能够与论文进行智能对话，快速理解和分析学术文献。
- Archived on GitHub
- No
- Source code at the repository's top level
- Yes
- Repository created
- 2026-02-15
- Release read by the index
- 3.3.4, published 2026-03-07
- Releases with an .xpi
- 10
- Open issues and pull requests
- 4
- Host of update.json
- github.com
- Menus and settings in
- English (United States), Chinese (China)
Overrides
The index corrects, fills in, or replaces these upstream facts.
| Field | Upstream value | Override value | For version | Used | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
description | Manifest: Zotero AI 聊天助手，支持与论文和批注进行智能对话 GitHub: Marginalia 是一个为 Zotero 设计的 AI 聊天插件，让你能够与论文进行智能对话，快速理解和分析学术文献。 | Adds an AI chat panel to the PDF reader for asking about the open paper with its full text as context, translates selected text into Chinese, and lets the AI search a linked collection; needs an OpenAI-compatible API URL and key. | every version | yes | Translated from the introduction and the "功能详情" and "配置" sections of README.md, which is in Chinese. The manifest description and the GitHub About text are half or more Chinese. |
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