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refcheck runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 52 installs a week from pypi.

Verify academic citations against real databases. Catches hallucinated references, exports BibTeX.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Installs per day peak 19 · avg 8 · +13% w/w
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52
Installs / week
pypi · refcheck-mcp
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Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add refcheck -- uvx refcheck-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "refcheck": {
      "args": [
        "refcheck-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.refcheck]
command = "uvx"
args = ["refcheck-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "refcheck": {
      "args": [
        "refcheck-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "refcheck": {
      "args": [
        "refcheck-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: CROSSREF_EMAIL (Your email for Crossref polite pool (faster rate limits)), S2_API_KEY (Semantic Scholar API key (free, from semanticscholar.org/product/api)), ELSEVIER_KEY (Elsevier/Scopus API key (from dev.elsevier.com)), ELSEVIER_INSTTOKEN (Elsevier institutional token for higher rate limits), IEEE_API_KEY (IEEE Xplore API key (from developer.ieee.org)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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refcheck — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for refcheck?
refcheck runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package refcheck-mcp was installed 52 times last week.
Is refcheck still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect refcheck?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls refcheck-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use refcheck?
The pypi package refcheck-mcp was installed 52 times in the last week. Week over week that is +13%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.