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Queries news and research metadata through configurable MCP tools, with attribution preserved and no article-body storage.
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Overview
Use cases
Query worldwide news article metadata through GDELT
Search scholarly works, papers, and DOI metadata
Expose a compatible news platform through MCP
Retrieve bibliography and life-sciences literature records
Run source discovery locally over stdio or stateless HTTP
Key features
Configurable news platform adapter
Public news and research provider adapters
Read-only MCP tools with attribution metadata
Stdio and stateless HTTP transports
Optional local source-policy foundation
Node.js ESM package with no runtime dependencies
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Configurable news platform adapter
Public news and research provider adapters
Read-only MCP tools with attribution metadata
Stdio and stateless HTTP transports
Optional local source-policy foundation
Node.js ESM package with no runtime dependencies
How CiteWire works
What CiteWire MCP server does
The CiteWire MCP server gives MCP clients structured, read-only access to news and research metadata. It can wrap a compatible news platform read API or query selected public provider APIs, with both modes available in one deployment. Results retain attribution details and links supplied by the upstream source.
A platform configuration exposes news.list, news.get, news.topics, and news.about. These tools support listing and retrieving platform items, reading topic classifications, and inspecting platform facts and attribution policy. The platform contract is generic, so the configured API must provide the documented read surface.
Provider adapters cover news, research, and bibliography sources. Available tools include searches for GDELT documents and context, arXiv preprints, OpenAlex scholarly works, Crossref DOI metadata, Semantic Scholar papers, Europe PMC literature, dblp records, DEV articles, and Hacker News stories and items.
How it works
CiteWire is an ESM-only Node package for Node.js 18 or newer. It reads a JSON configuration at startup and creates tools based on the enabled sections. platform and providers are optional; an omitted provider stays disabled, and an empty configuration starts successfully with no tools. The running deployment's tools/list response is the definitive inventory.
The default transport is stdio, intended for an MCP client that launches CiteWire as a local process. A stateless HTTP mode can instead listen on a chosen port and accept JSON-RPC at POST /. HTTP mode has no sessions or event stream. The server does not retain provider responses, source content, accounts, saved searches, or history.
The optional community policy foundation is local and read-only. It can perform source-policy and rights-evaluation checks in shadow mode, but it makes no network calls, loads no credentials, cannot publish, and reports publishable: false.
Setup and configuration
Install or run the package with npx and provide an absolute configuration path when configuring an MCP client. A minimal provider configuration enables OpenAlex with openalex: { "enabled": true }. Provider entries must explicitly set enabled to true before their tools appear.
To use a compatible news platform, provide its display name, site URL, and read API base under platform. Deployments can combine this with any enabled providers. Crossref additionally accepts the operator's contact email through its mailto configuration field; CiteWire sends that value only to Crossref in the request parameter and User-Agent.
Run stdio with npx -y citewire --config citewire.config.json, or start HTTP with --http followed by a port such as 8722. Invalid configuration stops startup and identifies the problematic field.
Limitations and notes
The CiteWire MCP server is not a crawler, full-text ingestion service, publisher, editorial system, or rights-clearance service. It does not store or republish article bodies, and upstream access does not remove the need to review each provider's current terms.
The Community package is read-only, stateless, dependency-free, and MIT-licensed. It provides no CommonJS entry point. Provider availability and courtesy limits depend on upstream services, whose documentation remains authoritative. Nothing is enabled automatically; deployers choose the platform and providers in configuration.
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