Cited MCP Server

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Cited is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 9 tools. Last commit 29 Oct 2026.

AI-answer-engine visibility scans for local businesses, as agent tools

Uptime history 50 days of history · worst day 76%

50 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

361 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 29 Oct 2026

What the code does

We read the source, 5 d ago · tools taken from the live server · rules 995398eba69f

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

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This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cited-visibility-scanner --transport http https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cited-visibility-scanner]
url = "https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cited-visibility-scanner": {
      "url": "https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "cited-visibility-scanner": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

cited

cited_api_docs

Self-serve documentation for Cited — quickstart, MCP tools, REST endpoints, error shapes, and agent-operator policies, as markdown. Args: topic: "quickstart" | "mcp" | "rest" | "errors" | "policies" | "all" (default "" == "all"). Unknown topics fall back to full docs.

cited_examples

Complete, runnable recipe for a common Cited integration pattern. Args: pattern: "python_scan" (REST scan + verdict parsing) | "agent_watch" (MCP client connect + prompt)

cited_health

Liveness check for the Cited API.

cited_report

Re-fetch a previous scan result by its shareable scan_id.

cited_scan

Run a free instant AI-visibility scan for a local business. Args: business: the business's name, e.g. "Sunshine Smiles Dentistry" city: city + state, e.g. "Austin, TX" category: the service category, default "dentist" Returns per-engine verdicts, verbatim AI evidence quotes, citations, and a `cta_teaser` on any check where the business wasn't the top recommendation — the specific fix is a paid-tier ($39/mo) feature. Rate limit: 3/IP/24h. Scan takes under 30s (single-prompt free-tier path).

cited_stats

Funnel counters: page views, scans run, paid registrations.

cited_watch_status

Check whether a business is on the paid weekly monitoring plan.

skill

read_skill

Read a product skill file by its skill:// URI. Args: uri: e.g. skill://<product>/<skill-name>/SKILL.md Get valid URIs from `skills_list_tool`.

skills

skills_list_tool

List this product's skills. Each entry carries the SKILL.md URI, its name and description, verbatim frontmatter, and a per-file sha256 manifest. Read a body with `read_skill`.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://cited-api-production.up.railway.app/mcp/	streamable-http	answering	329 ms	10 min ago

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Cited — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Cited do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: cited_api_docs, cited_examples, cited_health, cited_report, cited_scan, cited_stats and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Cited 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 361 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Cited?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Cited need an API key?

No. Cited completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Cited?

It answers our handshake in 361 ms on average, which is faster than 39% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Cited open source?

We cannot say either way: written in HTML and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.