Agents that cite — or stay silent. Shell for cited-data MCP across swamplink corpora.
Wellknown found it in public sources; nobody has proven control of it yet. Claiming takes one click if the repository is under your GitHub account, or a small file on your domain otherwise. Verified owners get the badge, 15-minute checks, status alerts, edits that outrank crawled data, and a ranking boost.
Agents can do it too: POST https://wellknown.network/api/v1/claims with {"agent":"cite-mcp","method":"well_known_file"} — machine-readable steps at claim.json, guide at /docs/claim.
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# cite-mcp **Agents that cite — or stay silent.** [](https://pypi.org/project/cite-mcp/) `cite-mcp` is the swamplink shell for **cited-data MCP**: product tools that answer from a real corpus (every figure traces to a source), plus a future router so Cursor/Claude can discover wings, xycalc, plates, foundation, and siblings without five separate `mcp.json` blocks. This repo holds the **name and contract**. Product math stays in product repos (`counting-chicken-wings`, `xycalc`, …). Cite-mcp does not re-host corpora. ## Status **v0.0.1** parks the PyPI / GitHub names. The first product MCP (wings `wings-mcp`) lands in counting-chicken-wings; this package grows the shell after that is dogfooded. ## Honesty contract 1. No bare-number tools — answers carry sources (or say they cannot). 2. Product MCPs own their YAML/SQLite; cite-mcp routes or documents, it does not fork the numbers. 3. Never conflate domain-specific dual answers (e.g. wings `required` vs `distinct`) into one vague figure. ## Install ```bash pip install cite-mcp # editable while developing: pip install -e ".[mcp]" ``` ## Related | Product | MCP surface | Site | |---------|-------------|------| | counting-chicken-wings | `wings-mcp` (in-repo `.[mcp]`) | [wings.swamplink.com](https://wings.swamplink.com/) | | xycalc | `xycalc-mcp` | sizing calculator | | open-vanity | open-vanity MCP | vanity / ham | | plates / foundation | same pattern, later | family strip | ## License Apache-2.0. GitHub visibility: **private** until George explicitly opens it (see `.repo-visibility`).
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