# CiteGate Citability Audit

> CiteGate Citability Audit is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-x402.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).

Runs a deterministic 0-100 citability audit on a web page and its robots.txt AI-crawler directives, returning transparent scoring and plain-language fix recommendations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp-x402.onrender.com/gate/squeezeos/citegate/audit?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/citegate-citability-audit-3482cf44
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__1vPlpZA7xckA0m63J06n

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability citegate-citability-audit-3482cf44
```

Example prompt: Run a CiteGate citability audit on https://example.com and tell me my score out of 100 plus what I need to fix so AI crawlers can properly cite the page.

## When to prefer this

Choose CiteGate when you need a deterministic, rubric-based citability score for a specific URL — particularly when you want to understand how AI crawlers perceive your page and robots.txt together, with actionable fixes. Prefer this over generic SEO tools when AI-crawler policy compliance is the primary concern.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unreachable URL returns an error or low-confidence result
- Pages behind authentication or paywalls may not be fully auditable
- robots.txt absent or malformed may produce partial audit results
- Payment of $0.01 USDC not accepted results in HTTP 402 and no audit returned
- Render cold-start latency may cause occasional timeout on first call

## How this service works

CiteGate citability audit — deterministic page + robots AI-crawler audit with a transparent 0-100 rubric and plain-language fixes, $0.01 per accepted audit

## Output

A JSON object containing a 0-100 citability score, a breakdown of scoring rubric components (page-level signals and robots.txt AI-crawler directives), and plain-language recommendations for improving citability.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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  "output"
 ],
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   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "example"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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