# AICW AI Mentions - AI mention scanner for standalone and agent workflows > AICW AI Mentions is a CLI and MCP tool for scanning how AI chats mention a subject. Run it standalone or plug it into Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, or another AI agent to start scans and inspect local reports. AI Visibility Tool AICW AI Mentions AICW AI Mentions is a scanner for AI mentions in popular AI chats. Run it directly from the CLI, or plug it into Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, or another MCP-capable AI agent so the agent can start scans, inspect local reports, and compare which brands, products, people, websites, cited links, and domains appear in model answers. AI mention scanner Multi-model reports Standalone CLI MCP for AI agents Static HTML reports macOS / Windows / Linux GitHub → Demo report → What it scans Mentions Counts companies, products, people, websites, and other entities mentioned in AI answers. Position Shows how often an entity appears and how early it appears in model answers. Cited links Extracts individual source URLs cited by AI systems during a scan. Cited link domains Groups cited URLs by domain so you can see which sources AI systems cite most. Reports Generates local static HTML reports you can inspect, export, or publish. Screenshots Cited links ranked by share of voice. Mention rankings across AI chats. Cited link domains grouped from source URLs. Install Run with npx: npx aicw-ai-mentions@latest setup-api-key npx aicw-ai-mentions@latest scan "Stripe" npx aicw-ai-mentions@latest serve Plug it into Claude, Codex, or another AI AICW AI Mentions can run as a local MCP server. That lets your favorite AI agent inspect existing reports, start new scans, rebuild reports, and work with the local data folder instead of only describing what to do. npx -y aicw-ai-mentions@latest mcp claude mcp add --transport stdio aicw-ai-mentions -- npx -y aicw-ai-mentions@latest mcp How it works Choose a subject, generate focused questions, ask configured AI models, extract mentions and links, then calculate frequency and position metrics. Project data, reports, logs, cache files, and configured API keys are stored locally. AI requests use the providers you configure. --- [View the canonical page](https://aicw.io/aicw-ai-mentions/) ยท [Browse llms.txt](https://aicw.io/llms.txt)