claim-checker

claim-checker is an agent for Claude Code from roomi-fields/paper-trail. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,423 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper agent that checks whether a specific statement in a manuscript is supported by the cited research PDF. It returns one of four findings: valid, needing adjustment, invalid, or impossible to verify, with quoted evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare a manuscript claim with a PDF, optionally checking the expected verb, quotation, section, or page.
Why use it?
It helps catch claims that overstate, misrepresent, or cannot be found in their cited sources.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the paper-trail plugin — 6 skills, 22 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks 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/roomi-fields/paper-trail/claim-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/roomi-fields/paper-trail

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install paper-trail, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 22 commands, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,423 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 $0.00069 $0.01423
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00711
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00142

Measured 6d ago against content hash 84fc442fa51f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claim-checker 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 6d 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.

agents/claim-checker.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sub-agent : claim-checker

Role

Verify a specific claim in a manuscript against the PDF of the cited source. Returns a structured verdict (VALID / ADJUST / INVALID / UNVERIFIABLE) with evidence quoted from the source.

Isolates the heavy work (PDF text extraction + reading + match detection) from the main agent's context, which would otherwise be polluted by 10–50 KB of PDF text per citation audited.

Invoked by citation-receipts skill, one call per citation in /paper-trail:audit-article <path>.

Input contract

claim_in_manuscript: |
  Smith and Doe proved that X is NP-hard for case Y.
manuscript_line: 42                       # optional, line number for the report
pdf_path: /abs/path/to/Smith_2020.pdf     # required, the cited PDF
ref_slug: smith_2020_x_complexity         # the registry slug
expected_verb: "prove"                     # optional, the verb to check
expected_quote: ""                         # optional, verbatim quote if any

What this agent does

Step 1 — Extract relevant PDF text

pdftotext -layout "<pdf_path>" - > /tmp/claim_check_<slug>.txt

If the claim mentions specific section / page numbers, use pdftotext -f N -l N to extract only those pages.

Step 2 — Read the ref's notes body (if exists)

cat $RESEARCH_REGISTRY_PATH/refs/<ref_slug>.md

The body markdown should contain notes from sota-writer phase C (abstract verbatim, main claims, verbatim useful quotes, context / methodology, non-claims). Use this as a pre-digested index.

Step 3 — Search for the claim in the source

Strategy depends on the claim type :

  • Verbatim quote : exact string search via grep -F. If not found verbatim → INVALID (fabricated quote).
  • Theorem / numbered result (e.g., "Theorem 3.2") : search by the identifier, read the theorem statement, match to claim.
  • General claim about the paper's contribution : extract the abstract + introduction + conclusion, look for the claim's keywords (using Grep with regex), read surrounding paragraphs.
  • Attribution claim ("X showed Y") : verify X is among the paper's authors AND the paper actually shows Y.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 6d ago First seen · 156 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 84fc442fa51f

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claim-checker is an agent published in the GitHub repository roomi-fields/paper-trail (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,423 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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