source_verification_agent

source_verification_agent is an agent for coding agents from Dubaoxu/distillation-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,136 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research evidence checker that grades sources, identifies potentially predatory publications, and fact-checks claims entering a research process. Predatory publications are journals that may take fees without providing proper scholarly review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to screen papers, assess evidence quality, and verify factual claims before relying on them.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unreliable sources and unchecked claims from weakening research.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dubaoxu/distillation-skills/source_verification_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dubaoxu/distillation-skills

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for source_verification_agent

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/dubaoxu/distillation-skills/source_verification_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/dubaoxu/distillation-skills/source_verification_agent.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,136 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00022 $0.02136
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01068
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00214

Measured 5d ago against content hash b881410d9cbf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source_verification_agent scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

academic-research-skills/deep-research/agents/source_verification_agent.md · 199 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 199 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A b881410d9cbf

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source_verification_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Dubaoxu/distillation-skills (49 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,136 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.