# Citation check (remote · cite.bestsmartgoods.com)

Check whether a page URL supports a claim.

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `cite.bestsmartgoods.com`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.1`

## 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 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - 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.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 83/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 195 tokens (~195/item across 1 items; 1 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 7/100
  - Stability observed for 2 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **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.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **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.

## Install

### How do I install the Citation check MCP server?

Citation check is a hosted endpoint at https://cite.bestsmartgoods.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 ladanyin-citation-check 'https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ladanyin-citation-check": {
      "url": "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "ladanyin-citation-check": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.ladanyin-citation-check]
url = "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "ladanyin-citation-check": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add ladanyin-citation-check --url 'https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  ladanyin-citation-check:
    url: "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "ladanyin-citation-check": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add ladanyin-citation-check -t streamable-http -u 'https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ladanyin-citation-check": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://cite.bestsmartgoods.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.

### 2026-11-05 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-04 (score 73, +3)

- [security] Tool “check_citation” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: 66 → 195
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03
- [functional improvement] Tool “check_citation” now declares an output schema
- [functional] First check of Tool coverage: 100
- [functional] Schema quality: good → excellent
- [cosmetic] “check_citation” reworded the description of “claim”
- [cosmetic] “check_citation” reworded the description of “url”
- [cosmetic] Tool “check_citation” changed its title: Check a citation

### 2026-11-03 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (1)

### `check_citation` (~195 tokens)

Check a citation

Check whether one public page supports one claim. Returns verdict supported, partially_supported, unclear, or unsupported, plus score, confidence, page_title, and method. score is the share of claim words found on the page, from 0 to 1, not a legal grade. Costs 0.08 credit only after the page is fetched. invalid_url and fetch_failed are not charged. Use it with one public http or https URL and one statement. Do not use it for login pages, files, or as legal advice. A low score means few claim words appear on the page. Key: https://firm.bestsmartgoods.com/signup

Input parameters:

- `claim` (string, required): One statement to compare with the page text. Short factual sentences score more clearly than long quotes.
- `url` (string, required): Public http or https page. Login walls, localhost, and non-http URLs return invalid_url or fetch_failed and are not charged.

Output parameters:

- `claim` (string)
- `confidence` (number): Between 0.30 and 0.85, rising with score.
- `credits_remaining` (number): Present only after a charged, successful check.
- `error` (string): Present only when ok is false.
- `method` (string)
- `ok` (boolean): False for invalid_url or fetch_failed. Those calls are not charged.
- `page_title` (string): HTML title, empty when the page has none.
- `score` (number): Share of claim words found on the page, from 0 to 1.
- `url` (string)
- `verdict` (string): supported at score 0.55 or more, partially_supported at 0.30, unclear at 0.15, otherwise unsupported.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 74
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Citation check MCP server?

Citation check is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.ladanyin/citation-check. Check whether a page URL supports a claim. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp).

### Is the Citation check MCP server safe to use?

Citation check scores 74 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 Citation check MCP server expose?

Citation check exposes 1 tool: check_citation. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 195 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Citation check MCP server require authentication?

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

### Is the Citation check MCP server still maintained?

Citation check 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.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/mcp
- Authorisation metadata: https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/ladanyin/agentlane
- Website: https://cite.bestsmartgoods.com/docs
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/ladanyin-citation-check/cite