Cite Files
REMOTE · CITEFILES.COM
Check whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a public website. No account for 4 of 5 tools.
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Last scanned (47 minutes ago)
Scores higher than 85% 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 Security66
- The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key. View diagnostics → Pass
- Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 5 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Unverified
- HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path. View diagnostics → Pass
- The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present. View diagnostics → Pass
- DNSSEC is configured correctly; the domain's records validate against the full chain to the root. View diagnostics → Pass
Transport & Reachability100
- Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake. View diagnostics → Pass
Schema Quality & AI Usability76
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 716 tokens (~143/item across 5 items; 5 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 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 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a current MCP spec version (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 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 4 Nov 26 0
- Stability: pass → 0.97 functional
- 3 Nov 26 0
- Stability: 0.97 → pass security
- 2 Nov 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.
- 31 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.
- 29 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 80 to 83. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 24 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.
- 27 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 73 to 77. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 22 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.
- 25 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 67 to 70. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 20 days of observed history at the previous scan, 21 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://citefiles.com/mcp
TLS valid
Negotiated TLS 1.3 with TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 .
| Subject | Issuer | Valid from | Valid until | Key | Signature | Serial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN=citefiles.com | CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US | 18 Oct 2026 | 16 Jan 2027 | ECDSA 256 | ECDSA-SHA256 | f00e6c622e36006f0e03f6de01a7d974 |
| SANs: citefiles.com, *.citefiles.com | ||||||
| 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 secure
Validation of citefiles.com. — Secure
| Zone | DS | Keys | Algorithms | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| . | trust_anchor | 20326, 38696 | 8, 8 | Verified |
| com. | present | 19718 | 13 | Verified |
| citefiles.com. | present | 2371 | 13 | Verified |
| citefiles.com. | Verified address RRset verified with the apex keys |
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 |
| Header | Value |
|---|---|
| strict-transport-security | max-age=15552000 |
| content-security-policy | frame-ancestors 'none' |
| x-content-type-options | nosniff |
| x-frame-options | DENY |
| referrer-policy | strict-origin-when-cross-origin |
| permissions-policy | camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=(), payment=(), usb=(), interest-cohort=() |
Background: How OAuth 2.1 works in the 2026 MCP spec →
Transports 2 probes
| Transport | URL | Outcome | Status | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| streamable-http | https://citefiles.com/mcp | Verified | 200 | |
| http (plaintext) | http://citefiles.com/mcp | HTTPS enforced | 301 | https://citefiles.com/mcp |
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 →
citefiles_agent_commerce ~150
Requires an API token (Authorization: Bearer cf_…). Read the stored Agent Commerce Readiness audit for a scan on your citefiles account: whether an AI agent can authenticate without a human's password, discover an API, read prices as text, and be offered a machine-payable challenge — as a tier from T0 to T5. Create a token at https://citefiles.com/account. Only returns audits for scans your account owns. This tool never runs a new audit — run it from the scan's report page first, then call this tool to read the result.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| scan | string | yes | The scan's public id, from a citefiles.com/report/<id> URL. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
citefiles_check_files ~111
Check which AI-facing discovery files a website actually serves: llms.txt, llms-full.txt, ai.txt, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, AGENTS.md, .well-known/mcp.json and others. Distinguishes a real file from a single-page app returning its HTML shell for every unknown path, which is the usual reason a file appears to exist but does not. Use this to verify a file you just published is being served correctly.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | The public website address. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
citefiles_crawler_access ~125
Test how a website answers requests that carry the user-agent strings of four AI crawlers — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot — by requesting its homepage as a browser and again as each, then comparing. The requests come from our server, not the vendors' networks, so a rule that checks the sender's address is not tested. Catches CDN and WAF rules that block assistants without the owner knowing. Use when a site looks correct but is not being cited.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | The public website address. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
citefiles_fix_prompt ~123
Get a task list for making a website readable and citable by AI assistants, derived from a real scan of it. Returns the findings with the evidence behind each, and the rules to follow while fixing them — most importantly that you must not invent facts about the business, and must leave a visible TODO instead. Use this to plan the work after citefiles_scan.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| style | string | – | Prose instruction (claude) or a task list with acceptance criteria (codex). Defaults to claude. |
| url | string | yes | The public website address. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
citefiles_scan ~121
Check whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a public website. Returns a citation-readiness score out of 100, the category breakdown, and the specific problems found — crawler blocks, missing llms.txt/ai.txt/sitemap, thin or JavaScript-only content, missing structured data. Use this before changing a site for AI visibility, and again afterwards to check the change worked. Scans of the same site within six hours are reused.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | yes | The public website address, e.g. example.com or https://example.com |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Cite Files MCP server?
Cite Files is a hosted endpoint at https://citefiles.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.
remote · citefiles.com
claude mcp add --transport http com-citefiles-citefiles 'https://citefiles.com/mcp'
What is the Cite Files MCP server?
Cite Files is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.citefiles/citefiles. Check whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a public website. No account for 4 of 5 tools. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://citefiles.com/mcp).
Is the Cite Files MCP server safe to use?
Cite Files scores 82 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 Cite Files MCP server expose?
Cite Files exposes 5 tools: citefiles_scan, citefiles_fix_prompt, citefiles_check_files, citefiles_crawler_access, citefiles_agent_commerce. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 630 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Does the Cite Files MCP server require authentication?
No. We connected to Cite Files without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.
Is the Cite Files MCP server still maintained?
Cite Files 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.