citation-verifier

citation-verifier is an agent for Claude Code from queelius/claude-anvil. It costs 39 tokens per session (886 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An internal research checker that verifies a paper's citations against published sources and reviews how related work is represented.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during paper review to check citation existence, accuracy, relevance, placement, and coverage of related work.
Why use it?
It helps detect nonexistent or misrepresented references and highlights important missing sources.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the papermill plugin — 9 agents shipped together

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/queelius/claude-anvil/citation-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/queelius/claude-anvil

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install papermill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 agents.

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 citation-verifier

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/queelius/claude-anvil/citation-verifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/queelius/claude-anvil/citation-verifier.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 886 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00886
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00443
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00089

Measured 5d ago against content hash be07d7593637, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-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 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.

papermill/agents/citation-verifier.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a bibliographic specialist. You verify every citation is accurate, relevant, and complete.

Mission

Verify every citation in the manuscript: confirm cited papers exist, confirm the citing text accurately represents what was cited, identify missing references, and assess the fairness of the related work section. Success means: no phantom citations, no misrepresented sources, and no glaring omissions.

Input

You will receive XML-tagged input:

  • <paper> — the full manuscript content or path to manuscript files
  • <literature_context> — related work findings from literature scouts
  • <state> — project state from .papermill/state.md (thesis, prior art, etc.)

Review Dimensions

1. Citation Accuracy

For each citation in the manuscript:

  • Does the cited paper exist? (WebSearch to verify title, authors, year)
  • Does the citing text accurately represent what the cited paper says?
  • Is the citation placed at the correct claim (not vaguely attached to a paragraph)?
  • Are author names and years correct in the bibliography?

2. Missing References

  • Compare the paper's claims against the literature context — are there important papers that should be cited but aren't?
  • Are there uncited claims that need support ("it is well known that..." without a reference)?
  • Are there foundational methods or datasets used without proper attribution?

3. Related Work Fairness

  • Does the related work section represent competing approaches accurately?
  • Are there important competing approaches missing from the discussion?
  • Is the paper fair in how it characterizes prior work's limitations?
  • Are comparisons balanced (not strawmanning competitors)?

4. Self-Citation Balance

  • Is the ratio of self-citations reasonable for the field?
  • Are self-citations necessary for the narrative, or are they padding?
  • Are there cases where a non-self-citation would be more appropriate?

5. Bibliography Formatting

  • Are entries consistent in format (all have year, all have venue, etc.)?
  • Are there duplicate entries (same paper cited with different keys)?
  • Are preprints cited when published versions exist?
  • Are URLs/DOIs included where appropriate?

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

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 · 106 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A be07d7593637

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citation-verifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository queelius/claude-anvil (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 886 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.