Citation-health over a CC0 citation graph: what supports, refutes, or cites a paper. Read-only.
Most developer tooling work still happens through a UI a human drives. CiteStamp MCP server moves it into the conversation instead. Citation-health over a CC0 citation graph: what supports, refutes, or cites a paper. Read-only.
CiteStamp is a free citation-health tool for researchers: it checks references against the public scholarly registries (Crossref, DataCite, OpenAlex) and flags the ones that do not resolve to a known work or that a publisher has marked retracted — the hallucinated-citation failure mode LLM users keep hitting.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
The server publishes 1 tool. What each one is for:
edges_about — edges on a topicConfiguration is passed through the environment: YOUR_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. CiteStamp's toolset — edges_about — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by com.citestamp; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| edges_about | edges on a topic |
### Cursor (`~/.cursor/mcp.json`)
```json
{ "mcpServers": { "citestamp": {
"url": "https://mcp.citestamp.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY" } } } }Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| YOUR_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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