source_verification_agent

source_verification_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Imbad0202/academic-research-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (2,373 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A research-review agent that checks the evidence behind claims and grades the reliability of publications. It can also identify predatory publications, which are outlets that charge authors without providing legitimate scholarly review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fact-check research claims, assess publication evidence, and screen sources for signs of predatory publishing.
Why use it?
It helps catch weak sources and unsupported claims before they enter a research workflow.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Part of the academic-research-skills plugin — 4 skills, 16 commands, 38 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to fact-check research claims, assess publication evidence, and screen sources for signs of predatory publishing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/imbad0202/academic-research-skills/source_verification_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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install academic-research-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 16 commands, 38 agents, 2 hooks.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/imbad0202/academic-research-skills/source_verification_agent.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/imbad0202/academic-research-skills/source_verification_agent)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/imbad0202/academic-research-skills/source_verification_agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/imbad0202/academic-research-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 2,373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.02373
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01187
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00237

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3ffecae526ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

source_verification_agent scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- canonical:instruction-data-boundary -->
deep-research/agents/source_verification_agent.md · 220 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. 8d ago First seen · 220 lines · 22 tokens per session scan C 3ffecae526ac

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source_verification_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Imbad0202/academic-research-skills (46,876 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,373 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.