Self-hosted MCP for AI citation tracking - no backend, no signup, BYO keys

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A self-hosted, open-source MCP server for AI citation tracking that runs entirely on the user's machine, supporting offline tools and direct API calls with no backend or telemetry.

Most of the AI citation tracking tools are hosted SaaS with a $295+/mo entry tier and an "enterprise" call for the actual features. The data they sit on top of is the same data anyone can pull from Perplexity, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SerpAPI, and Bing. Built and open-sourced a local-only MCP server that does the same job. 12 tools. No backend, no telemetry, no account, no analytics ping. Runs entirely on your machine, talks to vendor APIs with your own keys. The interesting parts for this sub specifically: * Three of the tools work fully offline against a local cache - `predict_citation` (0-100 score), `cited_for` (queries that ever cited a domain), `wikipedia_mentions` (Wikipedia links to a domain). * Cache is a plain SQLite file in `~/.citation-intelligence/`. No SaaS, no cloud sync, no opt-out toggle needed. * All API calls are direct from the MCP to the vendor. No middleware, no proxy server, no automatelab-hosted endpoint. * MIT licensed. Install: `npx -y` u/automatelab`/citation-intelligence` Wires into Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, n8n, or anything that speaks MCP. What I want to add but have not yet: a fully local replacement for `predict_citation` that runs against a llama.cpp model instead of the feature-based scorer. Curious if anyone here has built MCP tools that use a local model for in-loop scoring like that, and how you handle the latency budget.
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