Cite Files

Cite Files provides free AI crawler access and an llms.txt checker, testing edge-level crawler blocking, robots.txt, sitemaps, and generating missing files from a site's own published text. It helps ensure that AI assistants can reach, read, and cite websites accurately, without fabricating facts. The service offers a free tier and aims to improve transparency for web content accessibility to AI models.

Cite Files is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Crawling, Accessibility, and Open Source.

The Cite Files catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cite Files’ developer surface includes changelog, documentation, and 16 more developer resources.

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17.4/100 emerging Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API

Company Artificial Intelligence Crawling Accessibility Open Source

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 2.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 2.2 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 9.4 — up to +22.7 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 4.8 — up to +19.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cite Files API

Cite Files API as documented publicly: 4 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-11-04); not the provider's own document.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cite Files API Rules

21 rules · 19 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Citefiles Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Citefiles Com Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Security

Security

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: citefiles-com
name: Cite Files
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: unreadable
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://citefiles.com/og.png
description: Cite Files provides free AI crawler access and an llms.txt checker, testing edge-level crawler blocking, robots.txt,
  sitemaps, and generating missing files from a site's own published text. It helps ensure that AI assistants can reach, read,
  and cite websites accurately, without fabricating facts. The service offers a free tier and aims to improve transparency
  for web content accessibility to AI models.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/citefiles-com/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-04 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-03'
modified: '2026-11-03'
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, or other machine-readable contract found despite docs pages.
  evidence:
  - url: https://citefiles.com/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-11-04'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Crawling
- Accessibility
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Company
- AI
- Crawling
- Accessibility
- OpenSource
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/citefiles-com-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/citefiles-com-vocabulary.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/citefiles-com-changelog.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://citefiles.com/contact
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/citefiles-com-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/citefiles-com-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/citefiles-com-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/citefiles-com-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/citefiles-com-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/citefiles-com-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://citefiles.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://citefiles.com/privacy
- type: Login
  url: https://citefiles.com/login
- type: Documentation
  url: https://citefiles.com/guides
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://citefiles.com/methodology/changelog
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/citefiles-com-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/citefiles-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://citefiles.com/
apis:
- aid: citefiles-com:citefiles-com-api
  name: Cite Files API
  description: 'Cite Files API as documented publicly: 4 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist
    (2026-11-04); not the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://citefiles.com/methodology
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/citefiles-com-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

Cite Files API — frequently asked questions

Does Cite Files have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Cite Files, including Cite Files API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cite Files API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Cite Files, each linked for download from this page.

Is the Cite Files API ready for AI agents?

Cite Files has a Kin Score of 17.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 14.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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