# `eu.citedby/citedby` 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/eu.citedby/citedby
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/eu.citedby/citedby
- Version: 1.0.0 (active)
- Publisher: eu.citedby (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/resaleiq/citedby-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-24T11:17:39.967Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
CitedBy
Check a page, AI-crawler access, llms.txt and backlinks of a site. Free, read-only.
```

Scanned 2026-10-24T10:18:15.063Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 1 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Exfil surface

4 private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound paths in this server alone. Denying 1 outbound tool breaks every one: `mcp__citedby__check_page`.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__citedby__backlinks` `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` `mcp__citedby__check_llms_txt` `mcp__citedby__check_page` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | `mcp__citedby__check_page` |

| Private data | Untrusted input | Outbound |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` | `mcp__citedby__backlinks` | `mcp__citedby__check_page` |
| `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` | `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` | `mcp__citedby__check_page` |
| `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` | `mcp__citedby__check_llms_txt` | `mcp__citedby__check_page` |
| `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access` | `mcp__citedby__check_page` | `mcp__citedby__check_page` |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (1)

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

### `backlinks`

- 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 description's first sentence says "crawl": it reads web pages, which anyone can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 plainly when a domain is not in the data.
```

## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `check_ai_crawler_access`

- The description's first verb is "read": a word for reading.
- Tag private-data: The description's first sentence says "read" and "chat": it reads messages.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data. The description's first sentence says "read" and "chat": it reads messages, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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, so you can see who is blocked and by what.
```

### `check_llms_txt`

- The description's first verb is "fetch": a word for reading.
- 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
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.
```

### `check_page`

- The description's first verb is "fetch": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data. The description's first sentence says "fetch" and "web": it reads web pages, which anyone can write. The input takes a URL (input.url), and the tool reads it: it reads web pages, which anyone can write.
- Tag outbound: The input takes a URL (input.url): a request to a URL can carry data to whoever runs it.
- Claude Code: ask, because it is tagged outbound.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
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 and the exact fix. Deterministic checks only; says so when the page cannot be fetched.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access",
      "mcp__citedby__check_llms_txt"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__citedby__check_page",
      "mcp__citedby__backlinks"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__citedby__check_page`: untrusted-input, outbound
- `mcp__citedby__check_ai_crawler_access`: private-data, untrusted-input
- `mcp__citedby__check_llms_txt`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__citedby__backlinks`: untrusted-input