# Cite Files

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/citefiles-com/  
**Website:** https://citefiles.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 17.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.1 |
| Contract Quality | 9.4 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Access Clarity | 17.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 19.1 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 14.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |
| MCP Tool Quality | na |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (1)

- **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.

## Security (2)

- **Citefiles Com Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Citefiles Com Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Crawling, Accessibility, Open Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/citefiles-com/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.