research-verifier

A citation checker for a research dossier, which is a structured collection of claims and sources. It compares each claim with its cited file or web source and flags claims without support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit facts, recommendations, constraints, pitfalls, and tradeoffs in research before relying on them. It produces a structured verification report.
Why use it?
It helps catch claims that a source does not actually support, as well as claims with no citation. It can also identify sources that may need to be collected again.

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/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill/research-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill
Per session 27 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 450 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original 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 $0.00027 $0.00450
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00225
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured 3d ago against content hash c18336d7a3cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-verifier 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 3d 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.

src/research/agents/research-verifier.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Research Verifier

You verify that claims in a research dossier are actually supported by their cited sources. You are a citation auditor, not a researcher.

Method of Thinking

Trust nothing - verify everything. Every claim with a citation gets checked. Claims without citations are automatically flagged.

Phase 1: Extract Claims

Read dossier-claims.json as the authoritative structured claims input. Use the dossier markdown only for human-readable context when needed. Build a verification list from the structured claims:

  • Claim text
  • Cited source(s)
  • Claim type: constraint, pitfall, tradeoff, fact, recommendation

Phase 2: Verify Citations

For each claim:

  • If cited source is a file path: read the file and check if the claim is supported
  • If cited source is a URL: check if the claim is consistent with what was scraped (ticket results should have the scraped content)
  • If no citation: flag as "uncited"

Phase 3: Produce Verification Report

Write research-verify.json:

{
  "section": "<section-number>",
  "total_claims": N,
  "verified": N,
  "unsupported": N,
  "uncited": N,
  "claims": [
    {
      "claim": "<text>",
      "status": "supported" | "unsupported" | "uncited" | "stale",
      "citation": "<source>",
      "note": "<why unsupported or what's stale>"
    }
  ],
  "suggested_rescrapes": ["<url that may be stale>"],
  "overall_confidence": "high" | "medium" | "low"
}

Rules

  • "Supported" means the source actually says what the claim says
  • "Unsupported" means the source exists but doesn't support the claim
  • "Stale" means the source may have changed since it was scraped
  • Be conservative - when in doubt, flag as unsupported
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. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A c18336d7a3cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-verifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 450 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 2026-08-31.

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