Touch Browser vs Onecite

In-depth architectural comparison of the Touch Browser and Onecite MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Touch Browser when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Page-local claim verdicts, Confidence bands and review recommendations, Citation URLs with retrieval timestamps.

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Choose Onecite when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Research domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: Four-stage parse, identify, enrich, and format pipeline, BibTeX and CSL-JSON output, Metadata completion for authors, journals, volumes, pages, and abstracts.

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Touch Browser nangman-infra Research	Onecite Research
Summary	Evidence-grounded web research for AI agents. Verifies page-local claims with citations, confidence bands, policy reports, and multi-page session synthesis via MCP.	Generate academic citations from DOI, arXiv, titles, or URLs in BibTeX, APA, MLA formats.
Category & Scope	Research

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nangman-infra-touch-browser": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@nangman-infra/touch-browser-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "onecite": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "onecite"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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