MCP server

Cite Files Official

com.citefiles/citefiles

Checked 25 Oct 2026, 20:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Check whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a public website. No account for 4 of 5 tools.

Website

At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

citefiles.com (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

5

Token cost

About 956 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 20:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http citefiles https://citefiles.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.citefiles]
url = "https://citefiles.com/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"citefiles":{"httpUrl":"https://citefiles.com/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"citefiles":{"url":"https://citefiles.com/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"citefiles":{"type":"http","url":"https://citefiles.com/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add citefiles https://citefiles.com/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"citefiles","server_url":"https://citefiles.com/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"citefiles","server_url":"https://citefiles.com/mcp"}

Tools

• citefiles_agent_commerce ~213 tokens
  Requires an API token (Authorization: Bearer cf_…). Read the stored Agent Commerce Readiness audit for a scan on your citefiles account: whether an AI agent can authenticate without a human's password, discover an API, read prices as text, and be offered a machine-payable challenge — as a tier from
• citefiles_check_files ~167 tokens
  Check which AI-facing discovery files a website actually serves: llms.txt, llms-full.txt, ai.txt, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, AGENTS.md, .well-known/mcp.json and others. Distinguishes a real file from a single-page app returning its HTML shell for every unknown path, which is the usual reason a file ap
• citefiles_crawler_access ~188 tokens
  Test how a website answers requests that carry the user-agent strings of four AI crawlers — GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot — by requesting its homepage as a browser and again as each, then comparing. The requests come from our server, not the vendors' networks, so a rule that che
• citefiles_fix_prompt ~202 tokens
  Get a task list for making a website readable and citable by AI assistants, derived from a real scan of it. Returns the findings with the evidence behind each, and the rules to follow while fixing them — most importantly that you must not invent facts about the business, and must leave a visible TOD
• citefiles_scan ~186 tokens
  Check whether AI assistants can reach, read and cite a public website. Returns a citation-readiness score out of 100, the category breakdown, and the specific problems found — crawler blocks, missing llms.txt/ai.txt/sitemap, thin or JavaScript-only content, missing structured data. Use this before c

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