footnote-mcp (KazKozDev/footnote-mcp) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 74 out of 100, grade C. It declares 45 tools. No publisher has claimed this listing.

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footnote-mcp

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

→ KazKozDev/footnote-mcp· listed on glama

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// key findings
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Secret credentials may flow to a network call
6 flows detected: FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.
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You'll be asked for 7 credentials: FOOTNOTE_MCP_API_KEY, FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, SCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY, TAVILY_API_KEY, BRAVE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN
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.
configFOOTNOTE_SOURCE_CACHEOverride the cache location with =/path/to/cache footnote-mcp.
🔐 secretFOOTNOTE_MCP_API_KEYis generated by the Blueprint; it is the owner key.
configFOOTNOTE_MCP_PUBLIC_URL2. Choose a unique service name, then set in Render to
configFOOTNOTE_MCP_DEFAULT_RPM
configFOOTNOTE_MCP_API_KEYSThen update in Render's Environment settings and
configFOOTNOTE_BENCH_MODEL
configFOOTNOTE_BENCH_JUDGE_MODEL
configFOOTNOTE_BRAVE_COOLDOWN_SECONDSand FOOTNOTE_DDG_COOLDOWN_SECONDS.
configFOOTNOTE_DDG_COOLDOWN_SECONDSFOOTNOTE_BRAVE_COOLDOWN_SECONDS and .
configFOOTNOTE_RESEARCH_MODEL) to enable requirement decomposition, gap-specific query planning,
configOLLAMA_MODEL
configFOOTNOTE_EXTRACTION_DUMP
configFOOTNOTE_LOG_LEVEL
configFOOTNOTE_RETRY_AFTER_MAX_SECONDSLongest a request will block waiting out a 429/503 before handing the refusal back.
configFOOTNOTE_HTTP_CACHEStore ETag/Last-Modified and revalidate with conditional requests.
configFOOTNOTE_HTTP_CACHE_MAX_BYTESLargest body kept for revalidation.
configFOOTNOTE_DOMAIN_RPSPer-domain rate limit (token bucket).
configFOOTNOTE_DOMAIN_BURST
configFOOTNOTE_BREAKER_THRESHOLDPer-domain circuit breaker.
configFOOTNOTE_BREAKER_COOLDOWN
configFOOTNOTE_NEGCACHE_TTLSeconds to remember a blocked URL.
configFOOTNOTE_THIN_CONTENT_CHARSBelow this extracted length, a script-heavy page counts as a JS shell.
configFOOTNOTE_PROXIESFOOTNOTE_PROXIES set
configFOOTNOTE_PROXY_COOLDOWN
configFOOTNOTE_BROWSER_TIMEOUT
configFOOTNOTE_SCRAPE_APIFOOTNOTE_SCRAPE_API set
🔐 secretFIRECRAWL_API_KEY
🔐 secretSCRAPINGBEE_API_KEY
🔐 secretTAVILY_API_KEYLLM-oriented search API.
🔐 secretBRAVE_API_KEYIndependent web index.
🔐 secretGOOGLE_API_KEYProgrammable Search (Custom Search JSON API).
configGOOGLE_CSE_IDProgrammable Search (Custom Search JSON API).
configFOOTNOTE_SEARXNG_URLZero-key JSON API; instance must enable JSON output.
configSEARXNG_URLZero-key JSON API; instance must enable JSON output.
configFOOTNOTE_MIN_FREE_RESULTS
configFOOTNOTE_PROVIDER_STRATEGY
configOLLAMA_HOST
configFOOTNOTE_EMBED_MODELis unavailable the original order is returned. Model: (default bge-m3).
configCROSSREF_MAILTO
🔐 secretGITHUB_TOKENPublic zero-key requests work at GitHub's unauthenticated rate limit; GITHUB_TOKEN is optional.
configFOOTNOTE_NLI_MODELpip install -r requirements-nli.txt (model via ). Either way,
configFOOTNOTE_ENTAILMENT_MODEL
configFOOTNOTE_RECIPE_STORE
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

No tools have read-only/destructive annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

45/45 tools missing one or more hints — web_search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); web_deep_search (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); web_read (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +42 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.

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commit: 6bf67bbf632f853597343f68c64569fdbd6144f1
code hash: b4e50eef6f1af9e0c5143eae92a001bb4cbc4b41f7f7c982faafb70a43960fed
verified: 9/2/2026, 8:01:56 AM
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