verify-citations

verify-citations is a command for Claude Code from TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine. It costs 15 tokens per session (177 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A citation-checking workflow that compares claims in a research paper with the abstracts or full text of the cited sources. A citation is a reference used to support a statement in the paper.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check all citations or a selected section, tier, or topic and produce a verification report.
Why use it?
It helps find claims that are unsupported, overstated, or linked to the wrong source before publication or review.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the open-academic-paper-machine plugin — 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check all citations or a selected section, tier, or topic and produce a verification report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tobiasblask/open-paper-machine/verify-citations
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install open-academic-paper-machine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 33 skills, 21 commands, 4 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 177 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00015 $0.00177
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00018

Measured 7d ago against content hash 09a35f662bf5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-citations 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 7d 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.

commands/verify-citations.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Verify Citations: $ARGUMENTS

Activate the verification-engine skill. Read skills/verification-engine/SKILL.md in full.

Execute the complete 5-step verification workflow:

  1. Extract all citation claims from paper.tex (or draft.md)
  2. Match to BibTeX entries and DOIs
  3. Fetch source abstracts (Tier A) and full text for open-access papers (Tier B)
  4. Verify each claim against source content
  5. Generate verification_report.md

If $ARGUMENTS specifies a scope (e.g., "tier 1 only", "Section 2", "just the hallucination section"), verify only that scope. Otherwise verify the entire paper, processing Tier 1 (load-bearing) citations first.

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. 7d ago First seen · 17 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 09a35f662bf5

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verify-citations is a command published in the GitHub repository TobiasBlask/open-paper-machine (18 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 177 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 2026-08-30.