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Which MCP servers are CitedBy's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

read 2026-10-28

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Whose server it is
  • Registry nameeu.citedby/citedbyverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under citedby.eu. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-28
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-28
  • Tools4
  • Server calls itselfcitedby
  • Server version1.0.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-28 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 571 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Whether its tools do the product's job has not been judged yet.
  • Checked on 1 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "Check whether AI crawlers can reach a website", the likely first call is check_ai_crawler_access.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 1, the first on 2026-10-28
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 1 so far
  • Answeredmeasuring1 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer576 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 502 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (4), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 4 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • can do · Check whether AI crawlers can reach a website
  • not sure · Group repeated page errors into one fix
  • not sure · Rank site issues by severity before fixing them

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers4 tools · read 2026-10-28
  • check_page

    Fetch one public web page as CitedBot (robots.txt respected) and return what is wrong with it for AI answers and search: title, description, headings, structured data, canonical, language, links and more. Each finding has why it matters…

  • check_ai_crawler_access

    Read a site's robots.txt and test the server for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Bingbot and Googlebot. Returns, per crawler, whether robots.txt allows it and whether the server answers it…

  • check_llms_txt

    Fetch /llms.txt of a site and report whether it exists, whether its links work, and whether /llms-full.txt exists. When there is none, the full report holds a draft built from the site's own pages.

  • backlinks

    How many other domains link to a domain, and the strongest referrers, from the Common Crawl domain web graph. Covers domains with 100 or more referring domains under .eu, EU and UK country domains, plus the 5,000 most-linked sites; says…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citedby": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://citedby.eu/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http citedby https://citedby.eu/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://citedby.eu/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

OpenAPI spec

1 paths, read 2026-10-28. Open the spec ↗

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.