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Citation MCP Server

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not responding

Citation is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check.

Search research, revise drafts, format references and export your Citation documents.

Uptime history 8 days of history · worst day 0%
8 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
—
Tools
hidden behind auth
120 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Citation does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

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

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://citation.co/mcp streamable-http answering 120 ms 2 min ago

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Citation — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Citation working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 120 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Citation 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?
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 need an API key?
No. Citation completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.