# CitedIndex (remote · citedindex.com)

Look up AI-visibility and GEO tools: price, AI engines covered, limits and a source for each fact.

- Trust score: 81/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-04

## Components

- remote · `citedindex.com`: 81/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://citedindex.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

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. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-04.

- **Endpoint Security**: 83/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1596 tokens (~177/item across 9 items; 9 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 59/100
  - Stability check failed: schema churn in the 20 days we've observed: 0 tool removals, 1 breaking changes, 0 auth/transport breaks, 1 additions.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - All 1 tool(s) whose name or description implies an irreversible operation declare an MCP destructiveHint annotation.
  - An AI judge read all 10 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the CitedIndex MCP server?

CitedIndex is a hosted endpoint at https://citedindex.com/mcp, 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.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-citedindex-mcp 'https://citedindex.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-citedindex-mcp": {
      "url": "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-citedindex-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-citedindex-mcp]
url = "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-citedindex-mcp": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://citedindex.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-citedindex-mcp --url 'https://citedindex.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-citedindex-mcp:
    url: "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-citedindex-mcp": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-citedindex-mcp -t streamable-http -u 'https://citedindex.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-citedindex-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://citedindex.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-04 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 56 to 59.

### 2026-11-02 (score 80, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “submit_listing” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-11-01 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 46 to 49.

### 2026-10-31 (score 79, 0)

- [security] Tool “my_listings” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-10-30 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 39 to 42.

### 2026-10-28 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 32 to 36.

### 2026-10-27 (score 77, 0)

- [security] Tool “subscribe_newsletter” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads

### 2026-10-26 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 26 to 29.

## MCP tools (9)

### `search_listings` (~66 tokens)

Search listings

Full-text search over CitedIndex's Published tools. Returns compact records (name, slug, tagline, url). Fetch depth with get_listing.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number): Max results (default 10, cap 25).
- `query` (string, required): What to search for.

### `get_listing` (~77 tokens)

Get one listing

One tool in full, as answer-first markdown: the summary, then every question on the sheet with its answer, the vendor's own words for it and the URL that proves it. Identical to /{slug}.md and to the HTML page.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): The listing slug (from search_listings or the URL).

### `list_categories` (~27 tokens)

List categories

CitedIndex's categories with their live listing counts, 0 for one with none yet.

### `compare_listings` (~58 tokens)

Compare two listings

Two tools side by side, as markdown: taglines, pricing, API availability, tags — the researched compare facts, honest about unknowns.

Input parameters:

- `a` (string, required): First listing slug.
- `b` (string, required): Second listing slug.

### `get_best_of` (~73 tokens)

Best of a category

The Published tools in one category, in the order its category page prints (ranked by what we can confirm: a public price, an API and docs, independent sources, stated limits), as a markdown answer sheet. Payment never moves a row.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string, required): The category slug (from list_categories).

### `submit_listing` (~538 tokens)

Submit a listing

Submit a tool to CitedIndex: the url alone; we write its name and description from its own pages. Requires an existing signed-in account with verified email; send its session Cookie header on the MCP request, or an agent key the account made at https://citedindex.com/dashboard/agents as Authorization: Bearer. Identity and email come only from that session or key. Sign in or explicitly create an account at https://citedindex.com/login?next=%2Fsubmit and verify its email before retrying. This tool creates no account and sends no verification email. Returns {httpStatus:201, id, slug, status:'Draft'}; research + the quality gate decide publication. Your own (url, session email) replay within 24h returns httpStatus:200. The fit check starts at once and usually answers within a minute: poll GET https://citedindex.com/api/submissions/{id} and wait the Retry-After seconds it sends while fit is "checking". fit then reads "accepted" (it goes live, and the account is mailed), "rejected" (mailed with the reason) or "undecided" (a person looks within 2 days). No session: {httpStatus:401, error:'sign_in_required', message, loginUrl}. Unverified session: {httpStatus:403, error:'email_unverified', message, email, remediation}. The owner must prove the site before anything is listed: the account's address, or an address it proved with a code, must be on the submitted website's domain. Otherwise the answer is the pending state {httpStatus:403, error:'domain_unverified', status:'awaiting_owner_proof', listed:false, message, domain, proveWith, ownerUrl, ownerStep, remediation}: nothing is listed or queued. proveWith names who can receive the 6-digit code (any address at the domain; for a GitHub or other shared-host project, its listed addresses or a one-line file). Submitting for someone else? Give the owner ownerUrl (the submit page with the site filled in): they enter the code there and the listing goes in once proven. With a mailbox at the domain yourself: POST /api/domain-proof/st…

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): The website being submitted (https).

### `send_lead` (~205 tokens)

Send a lead

Send a buyer-intent enquiry (lead) to a tool or a whole category on CitedIndex. Keyless. Requires consent:true, a real name, a permanent (non-disposable) email, a message of at least 20 chars, and a target (listingSlug OR categorySlug). Returns { ok, delivered }. Idempotent by (email, target) within 7 days. Nothing here changes a listing's rank, tier or copy.

Input parameters:

- `categorySlug` (string): Target category slug (this OR listingSlug).
- `company` (string): Optional company name.
- `consent` (boolean, required): Must be true — you agree your details go to the provider(s).
- `email` (string, required): A permanent contact email (non-disposable).
- `listingSlug` (string): Target listing slug (this OR categorySlug).
- `message` (string, required): The enquiry — real demand, at least 20 chars.
- `name` (string, required): Your name.

### `my_listings` (~199 tokens)

Read your listings

What the CitedIndex owner dashboard shows about the listings an account owns: each one's status (`status.kind`: review with the expected date, accepted with `liveOn` and `paid` ('express' | 'featured' | null: the paid way that releases it, Featured including VIP listing), live, refused with the reason, or archived), the listing as it shows, 30 days of real numbers with the 30 before, where AI answers named the product or cited its page, and what it can buy here at this site's prices. Only for the account itself: send its session Cookie header, or its agent key with "Read your listings" as Authorization: Bearer. Same answer as GET https://citedindex.com/api/owner/listings. Read-only: corrections go through the dashboard's request form.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string): Optional: one listing, by its slug. Without it, every listing the account owns.

### `subscribe_newsletter` (~82 tokens)

Subscribe to the digest

Subscribe an email to the CitedIndex digest of new and freshly re-verified tools. Provide an email; returns { ok }. The address is on the list at once and gets one welcome mail. Every mail carries a one-click unsubscribe.

Input parameters:

- `email` (string, required): The email to subscribe.
- `source` (string): Optional: where the subscribe came from.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-04: 81
- 2026-11-03: 80
- 2026-11-02: 80
- 2026-11-01: 80
- 2026-10-31: 79
- 2026-10-30: 79
- 2026-10-29: 78
- 2026-10-28: 78
- 2026-10-27: 77
- 2026-10-26: 77
- 2026-10-25: 76
- 2026-10-24: 76
- 2026-10-23: 75
- 2026-10-22: 75
- 2026-10-21: 74
- 2026-10-20: 74
- 2026-10-19: 74
- 2026-10-18: 73
- 2026-10-17: 74
- 2026-10-16: 74
- 2026-10-15: 73

## Common questions

### What is the CitedIndex MCP server?

CitedIndex is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.citedindex/mcp. Look up AI-visibility and GEO tools: price, AI engines covered, limits and a source for each fact. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://citedindex.com/mcp).

### Is the CitedIndex MCP server safe to use?

CitedIndex scores 81 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 CitedIndex MCP server expose?

CitedIndex exposes 9 tools: search_listings, get_listing, list_categories, compare_listings, get_best_of, and 4 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,325 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the CitedIndex MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to CitedIndex without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the CitedIndex MCP server still maintained?

CitedIndex is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://citedindex.com/mcp
- Website: https://citedindex.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-citedindex-mcp/citedindex