aminer-pdf-citation-verifier

aminer-pdf-citation-verifier is a skill for Claude Code from CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill. It costs 182 tokens per session (3,730 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that checks whether the references listed in an uploaded research-paper PDF appear to correspond to real records in AMiner. It returns labels such as real, likely real, needs review, likely fake, or fake.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a paper’s bibliography, review possible citation hallucinations, and inspect per-reference matches and summary results.
Why use it?
It helps identify references that may be fabricated, mismatched, or too uncertain to accept without human checking. The service processes the PDF as an asynchronous job and returns a structured summary.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for openclaw.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pdf-citation-verifier plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a paper’s bibliography, review possible citation hallucinations, and inspect per-reference matches and summary results.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill
Claude Code
/plugin install pdf-citation-verifier

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pdf-citation-verifier, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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Per session 182 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,730 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 $0.00182 $0.03730
Opus 5 $0.00091 $0.01865
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00746
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00373

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2a7a0e2e3528, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aminer-pdf-citation-verifier 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/render_report.py, scripts/verify_pdf.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/pdf-citation-verifier/SKILL.md · 254 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 254 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PDF Citation Verifier

Verify whether the references in a paper PDF actually exist by submitting the PDF to the AMiner pdf-citation-verifier service, polling the asynchronous job, and returning a structured summary. Invoke via natural language or /pdf-citation-verifier.

What This Skill Does

For each reference parsed from the uploaded PDF, the upstream service queries AMiner SearchPro and labels the citation with one of:

  • REAL — high-confidence match in AMiner.
  • LIKELY_REAL — partial match, likely genuine.
  • NEEDS_REVIEW — evidence is inconclusive; ask a human.
  • LIKELY_FAKE — partial mismatch, probably fabricated.
  • FAKE — no plausible match found.

Each call to the gateway returns the standard envelope {"code": 200, "success": true, "msg": "", "data": ..., "log_id": "..."}. The script unwraps it before printing.

  • POST /api/v3/paper/citation/verify/upload returns data: {"job_id": "verify_..."}.
  • GET /api/v3/paper/citation/result?job_id=... returns data: [<record>] where the single record has top-level fields like is_finish, has_hallucination, hallucination_ratio, total, counts_by_status, summary, urls, report, result.
  • Whenever the script sees is_finish: true, it also auto-downloads urls.result (the per-reference JSON) and inlines it as details on the returned payload — so a single --output file contains both the summary and every record's status / confidence / title / first_author / key_reasons / top_match, with no need to follow the 5-minute OSS link.

The skill returns that record plus the job_id so the user can re-poll later.

File Map

  • SKILL.md / SKILL.zh.md — English / Chinese skill definitions (this file).
  • commands/pdf-citation-verifier.md — slash command entry.
  • scripts/verify_pdf.py — HTTP client: upload → poll → print the unwrapped result record.
  • scripts/render_report.py — renders the result JSON into a self-contained HTML report card (stdlib only).
  • requirements.txt — Python dependencies (requests).

Read the full file on GitHub · 254 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 254 lines · 182 tokens per session scan A 2a7a0e2e3528

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aminer-pdf-citation-verifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository CanXiangCC/aminer-open-skill (60 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 182 tokens to every session and 3,730 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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