footnote-mcp

An MCP server for source-grounded web research that verifies claims against their sources, with 42 tools for search, extraction, and verification.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

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 5 credentials: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY, BRAVE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configFOOTNOTE_LOG_LEVEL

configFOOTNOTE_THIN_CONTENT_CHARS— 200 Below this extracted length, a script-heavy page counts as a JS shell.

configFOOTNOTE_DOMAIN_RPS— / _BURST 3 / 5 Per-domain rate limit (token bucket).

configFOOTNOTE_DOMAIN_BURST

configFOOTNOTE_BREAKER_THRESHOLD— / _COOLDOWN 5 / 120 Per-domain circuit breaker.

configFOOTNOTE_BREAKER_COOLDOWN

configFOOTNOTE_NEGCACHE_TTL— 300 Seconds to remember a blocked URL.

configFOOTNOTE_PROXIES— 2 HTTP through a rotating proxy set

configFOOTNOTE_PROXY_COOLDOWN

configFOOTNOTE_BROWSER_TIMEOUT

configFOOTNOTE_SCRAPE_API— 5 Hosted scrape API (Firecrawl / ScrapingBee) set

🔐 secretFIRECRAWL_API_KEY

🔐 secretSCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY

🔐 secretTAVILY_API_KEY— Tavily LLM-oriented search API.

🔐 secretBRAVE_API_KEY— Brave Independent web index.

🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEY— Google + GOOGLE_CSE_ID Programmable Search (Custom Search JSON API).

configGOOGLE_CSE_ID— Google GOOGLE_API_KEY + Programmable Search (Custom Search JSON API).

configOLLAMA_HOST

configFOOTNOTE_EMBED_MODEL— is unavailable the original order is returned. Model: (default bge-m3).

configFOOTNOTE_SOURCE_CACHE— Override the cache location with =/path/to/cache footnote-mcp.

configFOOTNOTE_NLI_MODEL— pip install -r requirements-nli.txt (model via ). Either way,

configFOOTNOTE_ENTAILMENT_MODEL

configOLLAMA_MODEL

configFOOTNOTE_RECIPE_STORE

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 6a9fd7029bf293586df6a5541f9515226da70688

code hash: 222ba4135b6601b2e5dfdc97f32ad867ccfdfda1c544631c8978261b951e8524

verified: 7/1/2026, 9:55:51 AM

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