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USPTO Patent Citation MCP Server

Provides access to USPTO enriched citation and office action citation APIs with smart context reduction and progressive disclosure workflows for patent citation analysis.

→ john-walkoe/uspto_enriched_citation_mcp· listed on glama

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// key findings
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10 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour
10 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec
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No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation
Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.
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Open source with a license and README
Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.
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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: USPTO_API_KEY, INTERNAL_AUTH_SECRET
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configAPP_ENV
configENVIRONMENT
🔐 secretUSPTO_API_KEY"": "your_actual_api_key_here"
configMCP_APP_EXTRA_DOMAINS
configFASTMCP_TRANSPORThttp uv run uspto-enriched-citation-mcp
🔐 secretINTERNAL_AUTH_SECRET
configLOG_DIR
// quality suggestions

All four hints declared on every tool

10/10 tools missing one or more hints — get_available_fields (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_citations_minimal (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); search_citations_balanced (missing: destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +7 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

Tool inputs are validated

8/10 tool handlers declare input schemas (80%)

Declare an inputSchema with zod/joi/yup on every tool definition.

Tests exist

No test files found

Add tests that exercise each declared tool.

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verified: 6/18/2026, 11:00:01 AM
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