bibverifySAFE
Cross-platform BibTeX verification for researchers and AI assistants — CLI, Python API, MCP server, and explainable multi-source matching.
Overview
From the repository's own README, as read at the audited commit. Badges and raw HTML are left out.
Verify bibliographic existence and metadata consistency without destructive edits.
Chinese · Install · Quick start · MCP · Development
Bibverify is a BibTeX metadata verification tool for researchers, editors, automation, and AI assistants. It starts with exact DOI, PMID, PMCID, or arXiv identifiers and then scores candidates from title, author, year, venue, and pagination evidence.
Bibverify evaluates whether a bibliographic record can be located in the queried sources and whether its metadata agrees. It does not prove that research findings are true, data is authentic, or a venue is reputable. A missing database record is not evidence that a reference is fabricated. By default, the source .bib file is never overwritten.
Highlights
- Identifier-first lookup for DOI, PMID, PMCID, and arXiv IDs.
- Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Europe PMC, CORE, DBLP, arXiv, bioRxiv, and more.
- Explainable multi-signal matching across identifiers, title, authors, year, venue, and pages. A resolvable DOI with a materially different title becomes
identifier_conflictinstead of being hidden by title search. - Structured provider outcomes
1ff2adf29182OBSERVED · 2026-10-07Connect
Built from this server's own package name, version and transport as found in its source — not copied from anyone's documentation, so it cannot drift against a page we do not control.
claude mcp add bibverify -- None bibverify==0.4.0 mcp
claude mcp add bibverify -- npx -y @hylouis233/[email protected] mcp
claude mcp add bibverify:0.4.0 -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/hylouis233/bibverify:0.4.0:None
Exposed tools (4)
2 read · 2 write · 0 destructive.
| Tool | Risk | Description |
|---|---|---|
doi_to_bibtex | read | Fetch one DOI through Crossref and return a BibTeX entry. |
explain_update_diff | write | Compare two BibTeX-like entries and return field-level changes. |
rank_lookup_sources | write | Return the effective provider order for a reference. |
verify_bib_file | read | Verify the configured BibTeX file and return a structured summary. |
Trust audit
SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.
| Layer | What it checks | Result |
|---|---|---|
| L0 | Provenance & inventory | PASS |
| L1 | Static analysis of the code | PASS |
| L2 | Instruction surface (what it tells the agent) | PASS |
| L3 | Class-specific surface | PASS |
| L4 | Behavioural (sandbox) | SKIPPED |
What the source does
- Filesystem
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Network
- declared (2 observation(s))
- Shell
- declared (1 observation(s))
- Dependencies
- not all pinned
- Secrets in source
- none-found
Findings (3)
process.env.BIBVERIFY_RELEASE_BASE_URL = `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`;process.env.BIBVERIFY_RELEASE_BASE_URL = `http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}`;bibtexparser, mcp, requests, rich, typer
Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.
1ff2adf29182full audit observations/trust-audit/mcp-server/hylouis233__bibverify.json · Report an issue / request a re-scanAudit history
Every audit this server has had. A grade with a past is a grade somebody is still checking.
| Date | Source | Verdict | Grade | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | 1ff2adf29182 | SAFE | B | 89 | first audit |
Questions
What is the bibverify MCP server?
Cross-platform BibTeX verification for researchers and AI assistants — CLI, Python API, MCP server, and explainable multi-source matching.
What tools does bibverify expose?
4 in total: 2 read-only, 2 that write, and 0 that can delete or overwrite. Every one is listed on this page with its risk.
Is bibverify safe to connect to an agent?
The audit found nothing in the source that contradicts what it says it does, and graded it B (89/100). Grade A is held back for packages that have also passed a sandboxed behavioural run, which is why a clean server reads B.
What credentials does bibverify need?
No credential environment variables were found in its source, so it appears to need none.
How does bibverify run?
It speaks stdio and streamable-http, so it runs as a local process your client starts. It is published on npm as @hylouis233/bibverify at 0.4.0.
How current is this page?
The grade is for one exact copy of the source (1ff2adf29182), read on 2026-10-07. The repository is watched and re-audited when it changes.