OpenByline: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/source-verification/SKILL.md

source-verification is a skill for Claude Code from bailutingyu/OpenByline. It costs 43 tokens per session (611 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for checking whether research claims, numbers, and quotations are supported by reliable sources. It includes source labels, cross-checking, and rules for marking uncertain information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Fact-checking research, checking important numbers against independent sources, marking claims that still need verification, and cleaning source notes from finished copy.
Why use it?
Writing from unverified material can introduce invented or incorrect facts. This method makes uncertainty visible and favors original or official sources.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is bailutingyu/OpenByline's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on OpenByline itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything OpenByline configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to bailutingyu/OpenByline. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bailutingyu/OpenByline/main/.claude/skills/source-verification/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bailutingyu/OpenByline

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for source-verification

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for source-verification

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 611 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 $0.00043 $0.00611
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00244
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c85efeb29bdb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-verification 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/source-verification/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

来源核验与反幻觉

标注格式([来源]/[待核]/[未证实])、"宁标不编"与定稿交付闸门见 skill: handoff-protocol §四;本 skill 专讲来源层级、思维链自查、成稿来源呈现规范(核查层 vs 呈现层分离)。

交叉核对

关键数字至少 2 个独立来源;核验来源是否真实存在(防虚构链接/案例/判决);标注信息时效。

思维链自我核查(逐条套用)

"支持该主张的证据有哪些?可能的反驳或例外是什么?置信度 1-10 打几分?" 置信度低或找不到证据 → 降级为 [待核] 或删除。

优先来源层级

官方/一手 > 权威媒体/学术 > 行业报告 > 二手转述 > 自媒体。

成稿来源呈现规范(正文不露二手出处——核查层与呈现层分离)

  • 核查层(research-dossier / draft 的 [来源] 标注):照常标全,供 fact-checker 核查;来源尽量追到一手(官方公告/当事人原话/原始报道如 Axios、路透、官方发布会),把公众号/自媒体只当"发现线索",不当最终引用源。
  • 呈现层(final 正文):
    1. 正文绝不出现"据 XX 公众号 / XX 那篇文章 / 某号写道 / 据某媒体"这类二手转述措辞。事实直接陈述成"谁做了什么、谁说了什么"(一手口径),让文章读起来是作者从一手信息里提炼的观点,而不是把别人公众号二次加工成三手四手——那样一看就是搬运,读者不想看。
    2. 行内 [来源] 标注一律清除(定稿不留)。
    3. 确需注明出处,统一放文末"信息来源"小块,且只列一手信源(发布会/官方/当事人/原始报道),不列二手公众号名。

一句话:来源在核查层追到一手、标到牙齿;在成稿层干净到看不见,最多文末一行。

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. 2mo ago First seen · 22 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A c85efeb29bdb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository bailutingyu/OpenByline (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 611 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 2026-08-31.

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