# Cited AI Visibility Check (npm · cited-mcp)

Check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend a business. By Cited (cited.voreli.ai)

- Trust score: 70/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-04

## Components

- npm · `cited-mcp`: 70/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `cited-mcp`
- Version: `0.1.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

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

Scored 2026-10-04.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 98/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - 31 of 92 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 267 tokens (~267/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **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.
  - We read all 1 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 1 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.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server?

Cited AI Visibility Check runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y cited-mcp. 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 impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp -- npx -y cited-mcp
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "cited-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "cited-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp -- npx -y cited-mcp
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "cited-mcp"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp --command npx --arg -y --arg cited-mcp
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "cited-mcp"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "cited-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp -t stdio -c npx -a -y cited-mcp
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "cited-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-10-01 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_ai_visibility` (~267 tokens)

Check AI visibility

Ask AI engines (ChatGPT via the OpenAI API, Perplexity, Gemini) buyer questions with live web search on, and report whether a business is named, its position in any list, whether its website is cited, which competitors are named instead, and the source domains each engine used. Engines without an API key in the server env are skipped. Each question costs a few cents per engine, billed by the provider. Pass 1 to 10 questions, or omit them and pass a category (for example "family dentist") plus a location to use 5 generic buyer questions.

Input parameters:

- `business_name` (string, required): The business to look for, e.g. "Sunshine Dental LLC"
- `category` (string): What the business is, e.g. "family dentist". Required when questions are omitted.
- `engines` (array): Subset of engines to run. Default: every engine with a key.
- `location` (string): City or area, e.g. "Tampa, FL". Used when questions are generated.
- `questions` (array): 1 to 10 questions a buyer would ask an AI assistant.
- `website` (string): The business website, e.g. sunshinedental.com. Used to detect citations of its pages.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-04: 70
- 2026-10-03: 70
- 2026-10-02: 70
- 2026-10-01: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server?

Cited AI Visibility Check is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.impowerdlifestyle-code/cited-mcp. Check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend a business. By Cited (cited.voreli.ai). This page covers its npm package (cited-mcp).

### Is the Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server safe to use?

Cited AI Visibility Check scores 70 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 4 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. 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 Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server expose?

Cited AI Visibility Check exposes 1 tool: check_ai_visibility. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 267 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server still maintained?

Cited AI Visibility Check is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 4 October 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 Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server under?

Cited AI Visibility Check declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cited-mcp
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/cited-mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/impowerdlifestyle-code/cited-mcp
- Website: https://cited.voreli.ai/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/impowerdlifestyle-code-cited-mcp/cited-mcp