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.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/cite-check)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/cite-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/cite-check/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/cite-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/cite-check.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00056 | $0.00490 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00245 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00098 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00049 |
Grade A, and why
cite-check scanned grade A 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 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.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
WebFetch / `requests` / stdlib `urllib`). Match title and authors with the difflib What it actually says
Cite-check the citations in: $ARGUMENTS
Use the alterlab-citation-verifier skill. This is a deterministic gate, not a
vibe check — do not assert that a reference is real because it looks plausible.
Steps:
- Collect — Parse the references from $ARGUMENTS (a
.bibfile, a manuscript path, or a pasted list). If nothing was given, ask for the references or file. - Existence check — Run
scripts/verify_citations.pyto resolve each reference against Crossref, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and arXiv (keyless public APIs via WebFetch /requests/ stdliburllib). Match title and authors with the difflibSequenceMatcherratio threshold (≥ 0.70) and resolve any DOI / arXiv ID. Flag anything that matches nothing as likely hallucinated. - Retraction screen — Flag items marked retracted in Crossref (
update-to) or OpenAlex (is_retracted). - Claim faithfulness — Where a claim is tied to a citation, check the claim is actually supported by that source and map any mismatch to the TF / PAC / IH / PH / SH taxonomy.
- Report — A per-citation table: verdict (verified / unverified / hallucinated / retracted), the resolver that confirmed it, and the matched DOI/ID. Summarize how many of N citations could not be verified.
Degrade gracefully and say so explicitly when the network is unavailable: the script
emits unverified verdicts (never a silent pass), and you should fall back to a manual
WebSearch pass as the SKILL.md "Graceful Degradation" section describes.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 34 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 813daf4c6bc7
cite-check is a command published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
Other commands, from other repositories
ars-abstract
ARS academic-paper abstract-only mode — bilingual abstract + keywords.
checklist
Generate a custom checklist for the current feature based on user requirements.
clarify
Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.
specify
Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.
analyze
Perform a non-destructive cross-artifact consistency and quality analysis across spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md after task generation.
converge
Assess the current codebase against the feature's spec, plan, and tasks, then append any remaining unbuilt work as new tasks to tasks.md so implement can complete it.