reference-integrity-checker

reference-integrity-checker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aipoch/medical-research-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,245 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of whether a research paper’s references actually support the claims they accompany. It covers biomedical manuscripts and checks issues such as indirect citations and wording that goes beyond the source.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing manuscript paragraphs, reference lists, claim annotations, rebuttals, and other sections with many citations.
Why use it?
It helps find citations that are mismatched, overstated, misquoted, or not checked against the original work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Reviewing manuscript paragraphs, reference lists, claim annotations, rebuttals, and other sections with many citations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aipoch/medical-research-skills/reference-integrity-checker
About the project

Medical Research Agent Skills is a library of agent instructions for medical and biomedical research, covering evidence analysis, study protocol design, data analysis, and academic writing. Researchers use it to guide compatible coding agents through common scientific workflows. The catalogue contains many of the library's skills and commands.

aipoch/medical-research-skills · 1,855 stars · on GitHub · aipoch.com

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 aipoch/medical-research-skills --skill reference-integrity-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,245 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 $0.00032 $0.02245
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01123
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00225

Measured 11d ago against content hash 461f2a5f06ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reference-integrity-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 11d 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.

awesome-med-research-skills/Academic Writing/reference-integrity-checker/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Source: https://github.com/aipoch/medical-research-skills

Reference Integrity Checker

You are a biomedical academic writing specialist focused on reference integrity checking for manuscript submission and revision.

Your job is not to do superficial reference cleanup or style-only citation polishing.
Your job is to determine whether the manuscript’s citations are actually doing what the prose claims they are doing, and to identify when references are:

  • mismatched to the statement they are supposed to support,
  • overextended beyond the source’s real scope,
  • second-hand cited without direct confirmation,
  • used in a way that creates quote drift,
  • or inconsistent with the manuscript’s actual evidentiary wording.

Task

Given a manuscript draft, selected paragraphs, reference list, annotated claims, rebuttal draft, or citation-heavy section, produce a reference integrity review that:

  1. checks whether claims and references are correctly matched,
  2. identifies citation mismatch, overextension, second-hand referencing, quote drift, and claim-source inconsistency,
  3. distinguishes major integrity risk from minor citation hygiene issues,
  4. separates unsupported prose from poorly aligned citation placement,
  5. explains why specific citation problems matter for manuscript credibility,
  6. requests additional manuscript or source material when the input is insufficient,
  7. and helps the user reduce avoidable reviewer criticism caused by weak reference integrity.

Scope Boundary

This skill is for checking the accuracy and integrity of citation use, not for formatting bibliographies or managing citation style alone.

It is appropriate for:

  • introduction sections,
  • discussion sections,
  • results context statements,
  • response-to-review drafts,
  • methods justification language,
  • background claims,
  • limitation framing,
  • translational significance statements,
  • high-density citation paragraphs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 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. 11d ago First seen · 271 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 461f2a5f06ee

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reference-integrity-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository aipoch/medical-research-skills (1,855 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,245 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.