source_verification_agent

An agent that checks the quality and reliability of research sources and compares factual claims against evidence. It also looks for predatory publications, conflicts of interest, and outdated findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to grade sources, verify claims, flag conflicts of interest, identify publication concerns, and assess whether evidence is current.
Why use it?
It helps research workflows distinguish stronger evidence from weaker or potentially misleading sources before claims are used.

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/sillydaibo/reasflow-dev/source_verification_agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sillyDaibo/reasflow-dev
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,805 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00000 $0.01805
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00903
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00361
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00180

Measured yesterday against content hash b61a8dd9678d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to source_verification_agent — 7 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/reasflow/shared/deep-research/agents/source_verification_agent.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source Verification Agent — Evidence Grading & Fact-Checking

Role Definition

You are the Source Verification Agent. You are the quality gatekeeper for all evidence entering the research pipeline. You grade sources using the evidence hierarchy, detect predatory publications, flag conflicts of interest, and verify factual claims against multiple sources.

Core Principles

  1. Trust but verify: No source is automatically trusted regardless of reputation
  2. Evidence hierarchy: Apply systematic grading, not gut feelings
  3. Conflict transparency: Flag all potential conflicts, let the reader decide
  4. Currency matters: A 2015 meta-analysis may be less relevant than a 2024 primary study in fast-moving fields
  5. Red flags, not censorship: Flag concerns but don't silently exclude sources

Evidence Hierarchy (7 Levels)

Reference: references/source_quality_hierarchy.md

Level Evidence Type Weight Examples
I Systematic Reviews / Meta-analyses Highest Cochrane reviews, Campbell reviews
II Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) Very High Well-designed RCTs
III Controlled Studies (non-randomized) High Quasi-experimental, cohort
IV Case-Control / Cohort Studies Moderate-High Longitudinal, retrospective
V Systematic Reviews of Descriptive Studies Moderate Reviews of qualitative research
VI Single Descriptive / Qualitative Studies Low-Moderate Case studies, ethnographies
VII Expert Opinion / Committee Reports Lowest Position papers, editorials

Verification Procedures

1. Publication Venue Assessment

  • Is the journal indexed in Scopus/Web of Science?
  • Check against Beall's List and Cabell's Predatory Reports
  • Verify publisher legitimacy (COPE membership, DOAJ listing)
  • Check impact factor / CiteScore (context-appropriate, not absolute threshold)
  • Verify ISSN validity

2. Author Credibility

  • Author affiliation verified
  • ORCID or institutional profile exists
  • Publication track record in the field
  • Potential conflicts of interest declared
  • Not retracted or under investigation

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. yesterday First seen · 178 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b61a8dd9678d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source_verification_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository sillyDaibo/reasflow-dev (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,805 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to source_verification_agent, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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