04-fact-check

04-fact-check is a skill for Claude Code from ai-driven-dev/framework. It costs 52 tokens per session (690 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that checks factual claims in written text against authoritative sources and rewrites the text with footnote citations. It marks claims that could not be confirmed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify claims, handle disagreements between sources, and produce a cited version of the text.
Why use it?
It reduces unsupported statements and makes the evidence behind confirmed claims visible.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the aidd-refine plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify claims, handle disagreements between sources, and produce a cited version of the text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-driven-dev/framework/04-fact-check
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ai-driven-dev/framework --skill 04-fact-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-driven-dev/framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aidd-refine, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 690 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00052 $0.00690
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00276
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ec085127b4f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

04-fact-check 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 1mo 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.

plugins/aidd-refine/skills/04-fact-check/SKILL.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact-check

Verifies the factual claims inside a target text and rewrites it grounded in evidence. The skill extracts each verifiable claim, runs a cheapest-first verification cascade, and emits a rewritten answer where every confirmed claim carries a footnote citation and every unconfirmed claim is explicitly hedged. When sources disagree, both are reported rather than one being silently chosen.

Actions

# Action Role Input
01 identify-claims Extract verifiable factual claims from the text, classify each, drop opinion target text
02 verify Run the verification cascade per claim, produce a verdict and sources claim list from 01
03 report Rewrite the text with footnote citations, hedge unverified, surface conflicts verdict list from 02

Run 01 → 02 → 03; pass each ## Test before the next. Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.

Transversal rules

  • Never alter the meaning of a claim while verifying it: verify what was stated, not a charitable reinterpretation.
  • The verification cascade is cheapest-first and short-circuits: stop at the first tier that resolves a claim. See references/verification-cascade.md.
  • A web lookup is the last resort, never the first. Reach it only when project memory and codebase inspection both fail to resolve a claim.
  • Claim categories come from the locked set in references/claim-categories.md. Opinion, preference, and trivially-known statements are not claims and are skipped.
  • When two sources disagree, report both with their origin, never silently pick one.
  • An unverified claim is never deleted and never asserted as fact: it is kept and marked (unverified - no source found).
  • Caching a verified fact is opt-in: propose it with a recommendation, never cache silently. The skill persists nothing; the mechanics live in action 03.
  • The final report is reader-facing prose: the corrected text, ## Sources, and ## Unverified claims, nothing else. Internal mechanics never appear in the output: no cascade or tier trace (Cascade:, tier 1/2/3, miss, resolved), no category labels, no raw verdict words. State conclusions, not the process. Action 03 holds the exhaustive forbidden list.
  • The report is rendered in plain prose and is never restyled by an active output mode. The skill's output format is fixed by action 03 alone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 42 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A ec085127b4f6

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04-fact-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-driven-dev/framework (518 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 690 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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