Onecite MCP server
io.github.HzaCode/onecite·v0.0.11·67 starsGenerate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs in BibTeX, APA, MLA formats.
67 stars27 downloads/wk
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Onecite tools (2)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postsRead from the package source without running it. The installed server may list more.
batch_citeGenerate citations for multiple sources at once
citeGenerate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-01 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- Code scan14 source files scanned25/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 57 days ago12/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
How Onecite compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 88/100
- higher than 75% of 48,255 servers
- Tools
- 2
- the typical server has 7
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- GitHub stars
- 67
- more than 95% of 28,688 servers
- Downloads a week
- 27
- more than 14% of 12,191 servers with a package
What its tools let an agent do: 2 read
Install Onecite in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add onecite -- uvx onecite
What the publisher says
From the Onecite repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
OneCite Auditable citation normalization for research workflows
Features • Quick Start • Privacy & External Services • 📖 Advanced Usage • 🗺️ Roadmap • 🤝 Contributing
OneCite is a command-line and Python toolkit that turns messy, mixed-format references — DOIs, PMIDs, arXiv IDs, ISBNs, URLs, and BibTeX fragments — into auditable BibTeX or CSL-JSON records. Strong identifiers follow documented metadata-service routes; ordinary ambiguous plain-text references are returned as candidates for review and are not auto-promoted by process.
AI-assisted writing, automated literature pipelines, and copy-paste research habits produce ever more reference objects in ever more formats — and ever more chances for wrong, fabricated, or mismatched bibliographic data. Reference managers (Zotero), parsers (AnyStyle, GROBID), format converters (Citation.js), and identifier-to-BibTeX helpers (doi2bib, Manubot) each solve one slice of the problem. OneCite targets the under-served step before references enter a manuscript, systematic review, or manager: an auditable normalization layer that routes strong identifiers (DOI, PMID, arXiv, ISBN, URL, data/software DOIs) to the applicable metadata services, completes available metadata, reports unresolved entries, and produces BibTeX or CSL-JSON.
OneCite is not another reference manager, and process does not auto-accept fuzzy title matches. Strong identifiers are resolved through documented source routes; explicitly labelled thesis/dissertation citations have a separate OpenAIRE/BASE route and can fall back to fields parsed from the input. Ordinary ambiguous text is returned as ranked candidates through onecite suggest for human review rather than silently emitted as source-resolved output. That process/suggest separation, together with machine-readable JSON/NDJSON, exit codes, and deterministic offline checks, makes OneCite a scriptable building block for agents, batch jobs, and reproducible reviews rather than a GUI library. Source resolution does not establish that a work is authentic, unretracted, or correctly described by upstream metadata.
Features
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Onecite: common questions
- Is Onecite MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (88/100). Read the Onecite safety report
- How do I install Onecite?
- It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
- Does Onecite need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Onecite maintained?
- The last commit was 90 days ago (2026-08-06). The latest release is v0.0.11.
- What can I use instead of Onecite?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: QR Rápido MCP server.
- How does Onecite compare with other MCP servers?
- safety score 88/100 (higher than 75% of 48,255 servers); tools 2 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.
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