# CiteWire (npm · citewire)

Attribution-first MCP server for free news sources and free article APIs.

- Trust score: 83/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-22

## Components

- npm · `citewire`: 83/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `citewire`
- Version: `0.2.0`
- 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 2026-09-22.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 100/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to Openly-Useful/citewire).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 29 days ago).
  - Publishes a security disclosure policy (SECURITY.md).
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 69/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 39 tokens (~39/item across 0 items; 0 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Nothing to assess: this server has no tools to check for usage examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 100/100
  - No destabilizing schema changes in the last 30 days.
- **Tool Coverage**: 0/100
  - Nothing to assess: this server exposes no tools, so there are no tool definitions to check for coverage.
- **Tool Safety**: 75/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - Destructive-tool annotations not yet verified: our capture listed no tools, so there were no annotations to read.
  - An AI judge read all 1 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 60/100
  - Spec-recency check failed: implements MCP spec 2025-06-18; the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

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

CiteWire runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y citewire. 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 openly-useful-citewire -- npx -y citewire
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openly-useful-citewire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "citewire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "openly-useful-citewire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "citewire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add openly-useful-citewire -- npx -y citewire
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add openly-useful-citewire --command npx --arg -y --arg citewire
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  openly-useful-citewire:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "citewire"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "openly-useful-citewire": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "citewire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add openly-useful-citewire -t stdio -c npx -a -y citewire
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openly-useful-citewire": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "citewire"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## 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.

### 2026-09-22 (score 83, 0)

- [security] Stability: 0.97 → pass

### 2026-09-21 (score 83, +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.

### 2026-09-18 (score 82, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-16 (score 81, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-14 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-12 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 63 to 67. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 19 days of observed history at the previous scan, 20 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-10 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 57 to 60. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 17 days of observed history at the previous scan, 18 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-08 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 50 to 53. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 15 days of observed history at the previous scan, 16 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

## MCP tools (0)

The sandbox run completed and this package exposed no tools.

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-22: 83
- 2026-09-21: 83
- 2026-09-20: 82
- 2026-09-19: 82
- 2026-09-18: 82
- 2026-09-17: 81
- 2026-09-16: 81
- 2026-09-15: 80
- 2026-09-14: 80
- 2026-09-13: 79
- 2026-09-12: 79
- 2026-09-11: 78
- 2026-09-10: 78
- 2026-09-09: 77
- 2026-09-08: 77
- 2026-09-07: 76
- 2026-09-06: 76
- 2026-09-05: 75
- 2026-09-04: 75
- 2026-09-03: 75
- 2026-09-02: 74
- 2026-09-01: 74
- 2026-08-31: 69
- 2026-08-30: 69
- 2026-08-29: 69
- 2026-08-28: 69
- 2026-08-27: 69
- 2026-08-26: 69
- 2026-08-25: 67
- 2026-08-24: 67

## Common questions

### What is the CiteWire MCP server?

CiteWire is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Openly-Useful/citewire. Attribution-first MCP server for free news sources and free article APIs. This page covers its npm package (citewire).

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

CiteWire scores 83 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 22 September 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 CiteWire MCP server expose?

CiteWire exposes no tools. We connected to it and read its tool list, and it was empty, so it offers an MCP client nothing to call.

### Is the CiteWire MCP server still maintained?

CiteWire is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 22 September 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 CiteWire MCP server under?

CiteWire 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/citewire
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/citewire
- Repository: https://github.com/Openly-Useful/citewire
- Website: https://citewire.org/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/openly-useful-citewire/citewire