Module api

External API clients — network calls for operations that can’t be done via local SQLite alone.

When do we need network?

• BBT RPC (3 tools): BibTeX/BibLaTeX export and formatted bibliography. BBT’s CSL engine produces properly formatted citations — we don’t reimplement it.

• Zotero Web API (14 tools): All write operations. We never write to Zotero’s SQLite directly — that would break sync.

• PDF resolver (2 tools): Querying 9 academic APIs to find open-access PDFs.

All network calls use reqwest::blocking::Client (persistent connection pooling). The PDF resolver uses tokio for concurrent requests.

Modules

bbt_rpc

Better BibTeX JSON-RPC client.

zotero_web

Zotero Web API v3 client — for all write operations.