citecite-mcp (MCP Server)

This MCP server supports RAG citation markers by injecting [N] markers into LLM output, parsing those markers during post-processing, and stripping them entirely. Its functionality is centered on handling citation marker text patterns like [1] [2] [3] in generated results.

🛠️ Key Features

Injects citation markers into text via inject_citations(text, citations, at?)
Parses all [N] markers with parse_citations(text)
Removes all [N] markers with strip_citations(text)

🚀 Use Cases

Add [N] citation markers to RAG outputs for downstream processing
Parse citation markers back into structured data (source order, positions)
Strip citation markers from text before returning to users or other components

⚡ Developer Benefits

Tool-based operations for citation injection, detection, and removal
parse_citations(text) returns each [N] with position, index, and marker length

⚠️ Limitations

Designed specifically for [N] citation marker patterns and associated operations

@mukundakatta/citecite-mcp

MCP server for RAG citation markers. Inject [N] markers into LLM output, parse them back when post-processing, or strip them entirely.

Tools

inject_citations(text, citations, at?) — append [1] [2] [3] markers at the end of text, or insert at a position offset.
parse_citations(text) — return every [N] found in source order with position, idx, and marker length.
strip_citations(text) — remove every [N] marker.

Install — Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "citecite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@mukundakatta/citecite-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Install — Cursor / Cline / Windsurf / Zed

Same shape in each tool's MCP config. Transport is stdio over npx -y @mukundakatta/citecite-mcp.

Use case

You ran a RAG pipeline. The LLM produced an answer. The retrieval layer told you which source chunks were used. Now the LLM (a second pass, or the same agent) needs to inject [1] [2] markers tied to those sources, or to parse markers back out of an existing piece of text. That's what this is for.

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0.

io.github.MukundaKatta/citecite-mcp