Sourceright MCP server

Sourceright

Sourceright is Rust-first reference triage and verification infrastructure for academic writing, agent workflows, and future legal citation work. It is currently a technical preview suitable for developer evaluation and pilot conversations.

Who This Is For

• Technical editors and research-integrity teams that need auditable reference cleanup.
• Library, repository, and publisher teams that want deterministic citation verification workflows.
• Developers and agent workflows that need CSL-centered bibliographic pipelines with sidecar evidence.
• Legal-tech researchers evaluating a separate legal citation path without conflating it with academic CSL.

What It Does / Does Not Do

Sourceright takes references from documents or text, produces canonical CSL JSON, standardises and cleans the records, collects provider evidence, routes uncertain records to manual review, and exports clean reference files for tools such as EndNote, Zotero, and BibLaTeX.

It does not claim to be a production-ready institutional product, a court filing compliance system, or a substitute for examiner-grade final verification. DOCX manuscripts are now parsed directly for citation intake, but broader PDF extraction, live core-provider checks, better citation disambiguation, URL/archive integrity, and low-noise writeback suggestions remain hardening tracks.

Workflow

document/text
  -> extracted references and in-text citations
  -> references.csl.json
  -> standardisation, cleaning, verification, enrichment
  -> references.verification.json and review-queue.jsonl
  -> conflict resolution, citation reconciliation, and reference integrity reports
  -> XML, ENW, RIS, BibLaTeX, and YAML exports

Roadmap

• Academic reference extraction and CSL JSON canonicalisation.
• Provider-backed verification through Crossref first, then DOI resolution, DataCite, OpenAlex, PubMed/NCBI, and ORCID where useful.
• In-text citation reconciliation against reference-list entries.
• Manual review queues designed for human and agent/subagent verification.
• Platform-neutral journal screening outputs for editorial workflows, with OJS as the first public integration target.
• Reference reports for citation integrity auditing and AI-related citation-error signals.
• CLI and MCP server interfaces over the same Rust core.
• Legal citation analysis with a separate legal citation model and public-provider slots.
• Claim/source/provenance graphs built over detected citation support without asserting claim truth.
• Examiner-grade audit hardening for broader PDF extraction, live provider evidence, institutional-author matching, URL/archive checks, and explicit writeback plans.

See conductor/tracks.md for the implementation track map. The canonical requirements and repo contract are in docs/src/feature-contract-matrix.md, with the design diagrams in docs/src/design.md.

The current quality and security contract is documented in docs/src/security-and-quality-gates.md. Use the repository's bounded local gate runner before opening a change:

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.