Cited AI Visibility Check MCP server

Cited AI Visibility Check (MCP server)

Ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the questions your customers ask, with live web search on, and see whether they recommend your business.By Cited, the AI visibility tracker from Voreli AI.

cited-mcp is an open-source Model Context Protocol server. Add it to Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask something like:

Check whether AI engines recommend Sunshine Dental (sunshinedental.com) for family dentist questions in Tampa, FL.

For every question and engine it reports:

• whether the business was named in the answer
• its position if the answer was a list
• whether its website was cited as a source
• which competitors were named
• the source domains the engine leaned on
• an estimated cost for the call, from token usage at list prices

Tool

checkaivisibility

Name matching ignores case and punctuation, treats & and and as the same, drops legal suffixes such as LLC, Inc and Co, and also counts a mention of your website domain. Website citation matches the domain and its subdomains against every URL the engine cited.

Install

You bring your own API keys and pay each provider directly. Set any one, two or all three; engines without a key are skipped with a note.

Claude Desktop

Edit claudedesktopconfig.json (Settings, Developer, Edit Config):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cited": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cited-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-...",
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-...",
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add cited -e OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... -e PERPLEXITY_API_KEY=pplx-... -e GEMINI_API_KEY=... -- npx -y cited-mcp

Cursor

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or .cursor/mcp.json in a project):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cited": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "cited-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "sk-...",
        "PERPLEXITY_API_KEY": "pplx-...",
        "GEMINI_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Any other MCP client works the same way: run npx -y cited-mcp over stdio with the keys in its environment. Node 20 or newer.

Environment variables

The API versions of these engines are close to, but not the same as, the consumer apps. ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini in the browser can use different models, personalization and location signals.

Example output

This is the tool's real output format, run against the sample responses in test/fixtures, which follow each provider's documented response format (the businesses are made up):

# AI visibility check: Sunshine Dental & Implants (sunshinedental.com)

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.