For AI agents and their builders

Check before you cite

Language models invent citations. CiteStamp is a live, typed citation graph your agent can query before it emits a reference — with human-signed claims and machine-inferred coverage kept strictly apart, so your agent always knows which kind of evidence it is holding.

Hosted MCP server

The graph speaks Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP. Point your agent at:

https://mcp.citestamp.com/mcp

Five tools, each taking an identifier (DOI in any common form) and an optional asserted_only flag:

toolanswers
edges_aboutevery claim where the paper appears, either side
what_supportsclaims that something supports this paper
what_refutesclaims that something refutes this paper
what_citespapers whose reference lists include this one
references_ofwhat this paper itself cites

Every result carries a tier (asserted = human-signed, inferred = machine-derived), an attribution, and provenance. Set asserted_only=true when only name-on-the-record claims should count.

REST, if you prefer

curl -s https://api.citestamp.com/api/v1/ask/edges_about -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d JSON_BODY
where JSON_BODY is: {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.18182662"}

Anonymous asking is open at 10 requests a minute per IP. A free key raises limits; metered tiers exist for production agent traffic: info@citestamp.com.

Why this beats string-matching a bibliography

Service metadata

Machine-readable description at /.well-known/citestamp.json; a plain-text brief for LLM crawlers at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt.