Cite42 MCP Server

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Cite42 is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. 453 installs a week from npm.

AI visibility, brand rankings, citations, SEO keywords, trends, and scheduled prompt trackers.

Installs per day peak 176 · avg 38 · +408% w/w

a month agotoday

Uptime history 38 days of history · worst day 99%

38 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

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Tools

hidden behind auth

235 ms

Response time

average over 24h

453

Installs / week

npm and PyPI

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Cite42 every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.cite42.dev

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.cite42.dev"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.cite42.dev"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.cite42.dev"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.cite42.dev"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: CITE42_API_KEY (Cite42 API key (create one at https://www.cite42.dev/app/keys)), CITE42_API_BASE (Override the Cite42 API base URL (default: https://www.cite42.dev/api/v1)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.cite42.dev	streamable-http	sign-in	323 ms	12 min ago

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Cite42 — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for Cite42?

The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.

Is Cite42 working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 235 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Cite42?

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 is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.

How do you sign in to Cite42?

No API key is involved. Cite42 answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.

How fast is Cite42?

It answers our handshake in 235 ms on average, which is faster than 60% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

How many people use Cite42?

The npm package @cite42/mcp was installed 453 times in the last week. Week over week that is +408%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.