Citepath
NPM · CITEPATH
Self-hosted search over your documentation, with citations, for AI assistants and apps
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Last scanned (2 hours ago)
Scores higher than 90% of npm servers
Category Search and Retrieval
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 34 of 123 dependencies flagged as unhealthy (1 deprecated). View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency100
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to arif-js/citepath). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 15 days ago).Pass
- Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability74
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 510 tokens (~170/item across 3 items; 3 tools + 0 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 Management37
- Stability check failed: the tool surface changed between 0.1.3 and 0.1.4: 1 tool removals, 0 breaking changes, 1 additions. See how to fix → Fail
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 3 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 4 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
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.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 33 to 37.
- 2 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 23 to 27.
- 31 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20.
- 29 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13.
- 27 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7.
- 21 Oct 26 +26
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Known CVEs: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Dependency health: unverified → 0.87 ▲ functional
- 20 Oct 26 −26
- Stability: unverified → fail ▼ security
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Known CVEs: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Dependency health: 0.87 → unverified ▼ functional
- Package version: 0.1.3 → 0.1.4 functional
- 16 Oct 26 +26
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Known CVEs: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Dependency health: unverified → 0.87 ▲ functional
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 · Analysed npm/citepath@0.1.4
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | arif-js/citepath |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/arif-js/citepath/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v0.1.4 |
| Rekor log index | 3334615073 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:7b47d26c58a923b3cbf97914c78075e322aa721240379a4b45e4637479969b56df21e13fe7089913565952548963373578c2d2ac30dbf46b730b05891 |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 123 packages
| Packages resolved | 123 |
|---|---|
| Deprecated | 1 |
| Stale | 34 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
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_passage Read a passage ~161
Reads one passage in full by its ID, after search_passages has found it. Use it when a search result was shortened, or when you need the text around a passage: neighbors adds up to 3 passages before and after it from the same page, in document order. Returns { passage, before, after }, each passage with its citation_url. To find passages, use search_passages instead. Read-only; fails if the ID is unknown or its source was removed.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | string | yes | The id field of a passage from a search result. IDs stay stable across syncs. |
| neighbors | integer | – | How many passages from the same page to include before and after it, in document order (0-3, default 0). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
list_sources List sources ~62
Lists the configured documentation sources: id, name, type, document and passage counts, and the last sync status. Use the ids to narrow search_passages with source_ids. Sources are added and synced only from the citepath CLI, not through MCP. Read-only.
Input schema present but exposes no named parameters.
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_passages Search passages ~230
Start here: full-text search over the documentation indexed on this machine. Returns ranked passages, each with an id, title, heading path, citation_url, and text (long passages are shortened; read them in full with get_passage). Works with natural-language questions and code identifiers (getUserName, --dry-run, a.b.c). Results come from the current docs version; other_versions lists older versions that also matched, each with a path_prefix to pass back as path_prefix to search that version. Use list_sources to see which sources exist. Read-only.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | Number of passages (default 5, max 25). |
| path_prefix | string | – | Only passages whose URL (web sources) or root-relative path (local sources) starts with this prefix, for example a docs section or an other_versions path_prefix from a previous search. |
| query | string | yes | What to look for: a question, keywords, or identifiers. |
| source_ids | array | – | Only search these source IDs, as returned by list_sources. Omit to search all sources. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Citepath MCP server?
Citepath runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y citepath. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · citepath
claude mcp add arif-js-citepath -- npx -y citepath
What is the Citepath MCP server?
Citepath is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.arif-js/citepath. Self-hosted search over your documentation, with citations, for AI assistants and apps. This page covers its npm package (citepath).
Is the Citepath MCP server safe to use?
Citepath scores 86 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Citepath MCP server expose?
Citepath exposes 3 tools: search_passages, get_passage, list_sources. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 453 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Citepath MCP server still maintained?
Citepath 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.
What licence is the Citepath MCP server under?
Citepath declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.