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Citation Tracker MCP Server

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Citation Tracker is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 3 tools.

Free Perplexity citation check for your domain and prompt. 5 calls per caller per day.

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

Uptime history 74 days of history · worst day 0%
74 days agonow
74.7%
Uptime 24h
68 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
264 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 16

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 2 September 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

4 Nov 5 tools disappeared citation_tracker_check, citation_tracker_check_one, citation_tracker_monitor_30 and 2 more
4 Nov 3 tool descriptions were rewritten citation_tracker_check_perplexity, citation_tracker_monitor_cancel, citation_tracker_monitor_status
4 Nov 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for citation_tracker_monitor_cancel, citation_tracker_monitor_status
26 Sep a tool changed version
25 Sep a tool appeared citation_tracker_check_one
2 Sep 4 tools appeared citation_tracker_monitor_30, citation_tracker_monitor_7, citation_tracker_monitor_cancel and 1 more

Citation Tracker does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 35.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 15 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add citation-tracker --transport http https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.citation-tracker]
url = "https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citation-tracker": {
      "url": "https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "citation-tracker": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/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.

citation
citation_tracker_check_perplexity
Sends one prompt to Perplexity (sonar) and reports whether it cites your target domains, with citation count and cited domains. Free: 5 calls per caller and 200 calls total per UTC day; both limits fail closed.
citation_tracker_monitor_cancel
Stops an existing monitor and deletes its prompt, domains and results. Needs the monitor_id.
citation_tracker_monitor_status
Reads an existing monitor: remaining runs, next run time, and runs so far with changes per target domain. Needs the monitor_id.

Tools removed

Tools this server used to expose. Anything built against them stopped working on the day they went.

citation_tracker_check
removed 4 Nov 2026
citation_tracker_check_one
removed 4 Nov 2026
citation_tracker_monitor_30
removed 4 Nov 2026
citation_tracker_monitor_7
removed 4 Nov 2026
citation_tracker_shortlist_gate
removed 4 Nov 2026

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://citation-tracker.pixelcove.co/mcp streamable-http answering 58 ms 15 min ago

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Citation Tracker — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Citation Tracker do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: citation_tracker_check_perplexity, citation_tracker_monitor_cancel, citation_tracker_monitor_status. 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 Citation Tracker working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 68 of 91 checks got a reply (74.7%), average response time 264 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Did Citation Tracker ever remove tools?
Yes. citation_tracker_check, citation_tracker_check_one, citation_tracker_monitor_30, citation_tracker_monitor_7 and 1 more are no longer exposed — we recorded the date each one disappeared. A tool vanishing usually means a breaking change for anything that depended on it.
Is Citation Tracker 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.
The registry lists Citation Tracker 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 Citation Tracker?
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 Citation Tracker need an API key?
No. Citation Tracker 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 Citation Tracker?
It answers our handshake in 264 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.