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Evidence for your next connection.
Independent measurements of remote MCP servers. Every observation has a timestamp.
Read-only probesMCP server · Payments & trading
Paid web research tools: cited briefs, quote checks, page text. Pay per call in USDC via x402.
1 failed · 8 not measured
Median of successful probes over 7 days
Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.
Tool definitions returned by this server
Independent monitoring
Outdated check
Last connection measurement is over 24 hours old. Current availability is unknown.
Last checked| Test area | Passed | Failed | Unmeasured |
|---|---|---|---|
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools? | 5 | 0 | 0 |
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly? | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server? | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent? | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source? | 3 | 1 | 2 |
Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work
Start using Cited Brief
Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.
Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cited-brief https://cited-brief.cited-brief.workers.dev/mcpCapabilities
Looks up 1-10 DOIs or arXiv ids: does the paper exist, its title, authors, year and venue, how often it is cited, and whether it has been retracted. Pass the titles you cited to see if they match the real ones. Catches made-up references. No AI involved; if the lookup services are down you are not charged. Price: $0.01 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredChecks 1-10 URLs: HTTP status, where redirects end, the page title, and a warning when a "200" page is really a not-found page. Use it to catch dead or made-up citations. No AI involved; a dead link is a valid answer, but a request with no usable URL is not charged. Price: $0.01 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredChecks whether 1-10 quotes really appear on a web page (ignoring case, spacing, and quote or dash styles) and returns the surrounding text. Use it to catch made-up citations. No AI involved; if the page can't be read you are not charged. Price: $0.01 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredAnswers a question from 1-5 web pages you name. Every claim comes with a verbatim quote that is re-checked on the live page; claims that fail are dropped, and if none pass you are not charged. Price: $0.10 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredDomain age and registration facts (created, expires, registrar, status, nameservers) from the registry's RDAP or WHOIS service, plus live DNS (address records, mail servers, SPF, DMARC) and plain flags such as "registered only 9 days ago". Use it to judge how trustworthy a site is. No AI involved. Works for most TLDs (.com, .org, .io, .ai, .dev, .co.uk and over a thousand more); if the registry has no public lookup (for example .de, .jp, .co, .ru, .ac.uk) or does not answer, you are not charged. Price: $0.02 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredFetches a public web page and returns its title and readable text, without scripts, styles or markup (up to 100,000 characters). If the page can't be read you are not charged. Price: $0.01 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredReads the site's robots.txt and says whether a crawler may fetch a URL (RFC 9309: the longest matching rule wins, Allow wins a tie), with the matching rule, crawl-delay and sitemaps. No AI involved; if robots.txt cannot be read you are not charged. Price: $0.01 USDC per call (x402).
DiscoveredRecent measurements
| Checked | Result | Response | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connected | 400 ms | 7 |