b/cited
REMOTE · MCP.BCITED.AI · 2 COMPONENTS
AEO tools: scan any URL for AI-citation readiness, read the public leaderboard and citation panel.
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Last scanned (1 hour ago)
Scores higher than 93% of remote servers
Reachable. Last reached 5 Nov 2026.
Category Marketing and SEO
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Endpoint Security74
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Partial
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability80
- 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).Pass
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1448 tokens (~181/item across 8 items; 6 tools + 2 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management100
- No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.Pass
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 8 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
- Supports UI / widget rendering.Pass
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 2 Nov 26 0
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “lookup_glossary” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “scan_site” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_domain_readiness” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_leaderboard” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “get_prompt_citations” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- Tool “list_leaderboard_categories” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- “get_prompt_citations” reworded the description of “category” cosmetic
- 20 Oct 26 0
- The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads security
- Tool “get_prompt_citations” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads security
- 17 Oct 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 16 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 93 to 97. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 28 days of observed history at the previous scan, 29 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 14 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 87 to 90. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 26 days of observed history at the previous scan, 27 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 12 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 25 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 10 Oct 26 +2
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 60 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 18 days of observed history at the previous scan, 23 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 5 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Probed https://mcp.bcited.ai/public
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=bcited.ai | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 16 Sept 2026 | 15 Dec 2026 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | bc49a70e1a7039920ebf783b6397244a |
| SANs: bcited.ai, mcp.bcited.ai, *.mcp.bcited.ai | ||||||
| CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US (CA) | CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US | 13 Dec 2023 | 20 Feb 2029 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA384 | 7ff31977972c224a76155d13b6d685e3 |
| CN=GTS Root R4,O=Google Trust Services LLC,C=US (CA) | CN=GlobalSign Root CA,OU=Root CA,O=GlobalSign nv-sa,C=BE | 15 Nov 2023 | 28 Jan 2028 | ECDSA 384 | SHA256-RSA | 7fe530bf331343bedd821610493d8a1b |
Background: What to check on a remote MCP endpoint →
DNSSEC insecure
Validation of mcp.bcited.ai. — Not signed
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| ai. | present | 1814, 3799 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| bcited.ai. | absent | Unsigned (proven) parent-signed NSEC/NSEC3 proves an unsigned delegation |
Authentication No authorisation required
The endpoint answered without asking for a token. Anyone who knows the URL can reach it.
| Result | No authorisation required |
|---|---|
| HTTP status | 200 |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://mcp.bcited.ai/public | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://mcp.bcited.ai/public | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://mcp.bcited.ai/public |
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_domain_readiness Get a leaderboard domain's readiness ~137
Look up one domain on b/cited's public AEO readiness leaderboard: its rank, grade, overall and AEO scores in every category it appears in, the AEO-category checks from its most recent weekly scan, and its score history (newest first). Covers only the 180 curated leaderboard domains.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | – | Restrict to one category slug when the domain is listed in several. |
| domain | string | yes | Apex domain, e.g. "asana.com". A URL is accepted and reduced to its host. |
| history_limit | integer | – | How many weekly history points to return. Default 12. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_leaderboard Get a leaderboard category ~114
Return one category of b/cited's public AEO readiness leaderboard: every curated domain ranked by overall readiness score (0–100) with its letter grade and AEO score, as scanned weekly by the same rule-based scanner as the site scan. Unscanned domains sort last with null scores.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | yes | Category slug, e.g. "crm" or "project-management". |
| limit | integer | – | How many rows to return, from the top. Default 15 (a full category). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_prompt_citations Get a category's AI citation panel ~161
For one leaderboard category, which sites ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity cited when asked b/cited's fixed set of buyer prompts, for one ISO week (default: the latest recorded). Per prompt and engine: the ordered cited hosts and whether each is on the board; per board domain: cited on N of M prompt-and-engine pairs and best rank; plus hosts cited that are not on the board. This is engine output at run time, not a scanner score; the prompts are a sample, not a census; no endorsement is implied.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| category | string | yes | Leaderboard category slug, e.g. "crm". |
| week | string | – | ISO week like "2026-W38". Default: the latest week with data. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_leaderboard_categories List leaderboard categories ~34
List the 12 industry categories of b/cited's public AEO readiness leaderboard (slug, name, description).
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
lookup_glossary Look up a b/cited glossary term ~105
Define a term the way b/cited's glossary defines it — AEO, citation, brand rank, visibility score, authority score, topical cluster, coverage diff, llms.txt, ai.txt, and 30 more. Matches on term, alias, or slug, and returns the best match plus close alternatives. With no term, returns every entry.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| term | string | – | The term, alias, or slug to look up. Omit to list all entries. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
scan_site Scan a site for AI-citation readiness ~244
Run b/cited's Site Readiness scan on one public URL: a rule-based audit (not model-judged) of 30+ observable signals across nine categories — indexing, metadata, social cards, structured data, AEO (llms.txt, ai.txt, AI-crawler stance in robots.txt, FAQPage/HowTo/Author schema), international, mobile, security headers, and performance. Returns an A–F grade, a 0–100 score per category, and every check with pass/warn/fail and a detail line. Performance (Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights) is off by default because it adds up to 45 seconds; set include_performance to true to include it. Results are cached for an hour and shared across callers (source: "cache"). Private, loopback and .local hosts are rejected.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| include_performance | boolean | – | Also run Core Web Vitals via PageSpeed Insights. Slower (up to 45 s) and on a separate daily budget. Default false. |
| url | string | yes | The public page to scan. A bare host like example.com is accepted; https is assumed. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the b/cited MCP server?
b/cited is a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.bcited.ai/public, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
remote · mcp.bcited.ai
claude mcp add --transport http ai-bcited-bcited 'https://mcp.bcited.ai/public'
What is the b/cited MCP server?
b/cited is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as ai.bcited/bcited. AEO tools: scan any URL for AI-citation readiness, read the public leaderboard and citation panel. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://mcp.bcited.ai/public).
Is the b/cited MCP server safe to use?
b/cited scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the b/cited MCP server expose?
b/cited exposes 6 tools: scan_site, list_leaderboard_categories, get_leaderboard, get_domain_readiness, get_prompt_citations, lookup_glossary. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 795 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the b/cited MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to b/cited without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the b/cited MCP server still maintained?
b/cited is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.