# `com.citestamp/citestamp` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.citestamp/citestamp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.citestamp/citestamp
- Version: 1.3.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.citestamp (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/citestamp/mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:52:47.760Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
CiteStamp
Check that a reference resolves; see what supports, refutes or cites a paper. CC0 graph, read-only.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:33:26.144Z over streamable-http.

**7 tools: 7 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 7 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__citestamp__check_reference` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (7)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `check_reference`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Whether a reference resolves to a real work. Use when an answer is about to cite a paper. Give a DOI, an arXiv id or the reference as written. Answers found, confirm (with the reason), not found in the named sources on a date, or couldn't check. A not-found is not proof a work was never published.
```

### `edges_about`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Every edge touching the given work in either direction, each tagged asserted|inferred with attribution and provenance. Use when a user asks 'what is known about this paper's citations' or wants the whole neighbourhood in one call. Paged.
```

### `references_of`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
What the given work CITES (its reference list). Use when a user asks what a paper relies on, whether a specific citation in it exists, or wants to check a reference before reusing it. Paged.
```

### `retraction_listing`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Whether the Retraction Watch database lists the given DOI as retracted, from the dated export CiteStamp joins weekly. Use when a user asks whether a paper has been retracted or carries a retraction notice. Not listed means not in that export; the publisher record is not checked.
```

### `what_cites`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Works that CITE the given DOI (incoming citations). Use when a user asks who cites a paper, how much a work has been cited, or whether a claimed 'cited by' is real. Returns edges with tier + attribution; paged.
```

### `what_refutes`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Edges recorded as REFUTING the given work or claim: human-signed refutations plus failed replication outcomes coded by the FORRT Replication Database. Use when a user asks whether a finding failed to replicate or has been contradicted.
```

### `what_supports`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Edges recorded as SUPPORTING the given work or claim: human-signed support claims plus successful replication outcomes coded by the FORRT Replication Database. Use when a user asks whether a finding held up or was replicated.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `citestamp`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__citestamp__what_supports",
      "mcp__citestamp__what_refutes",
      "mcp__citestamp__what_cites",
      "mcp__citestamp__references_of",
      "mcp__citestamp__edges_about",
      "mcp__citestamp__retraction_listing",
      "mcp__citestamp__check_reference"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__citestamp__check_reference`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:29:25.758Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:29:25.758Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `7` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 7 tools that change things (7 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://mcp.citestamp.com/mcp: tools/list returned 7 tools to an anonymous client, including what_supports (write), what_refutes (write), what_cites (write), references_of (write), edges_about (write) and 2 more
```