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Citeguard MCP Server

io.github.Franksterino/citeguard
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Citeguard is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 47 installs a week from npm. It exposes 3 tools. Last commit 7 Jul 2026.

Verify citations in AI text: fetches each cited source, returns verdicts with evidence quotes.

Installs per day peak 265 · avg 28 · -24% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 41 hours of history · worst hour 0%
41 hours agonow
18.7%
Uptime 24h
17 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
268 ms
Response time
average over 24h
47
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add citeguard --transport http https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citeguard": {
      "url": "https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.citeguard]
url = "https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citeguard": {
      "url": "https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citeguard": {
      "url": "https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

document
check_document
Audit every citation in a markdown/plain-text document: extracts claim+source pairs (markdown links, footnotes, DOIs, bare URLs), verifies each against the fetched source, and returns a report with a citation integrity score (0-100).
links
check_links
Liveness-only check (no LLM): extracts all cited URLs and reports dead links, homepage redirects, and archive.org availability.
verify
verify_claims
Verify claim+source pairs: fetches each cited URL and returns a per-claim verdict (supported / partially_supported / contradicted / unsupported / uncertain / could_not_fetch) with a quoted evidence span from the source.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://citeguard.boundy.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 235 ms 11 min ago

Citeguard — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Citeguard do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_document, check_links, verify_claims. 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 Citeguard working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 17 of 91 checks got a reply (18.7%), average response time 268 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Citeguard as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Citeguard?
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.
Does Citeguard need an API key?
No. Citeguard completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Citeguard?
It answers our handshake in 268 ms on average, which is faster than 50% 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 Citeguard?
The npm package citeguard was installed 47 times in the last week. Week over week that is -24%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Citeguard open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.