citecheck

citecheck is a skill for Claude Code from color4-alt/CiteCheck. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,190 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool and workflow for checking citations in LaTeX or PDF research papers. It verifies references, checks formatting, and evaluates whether cited papers exist, fit the topic, and support the surrounding claim.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract references, verify them through academic databases, check bibliography formatting, and produce a citation-checking report.
Why use it?
It helps detect missing, incorrectly formatted, irrelevant, or unsupported references before a paper is submitted or shared.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the CiteCheck plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/color4-alt/citecheck/citecheck
Any agent
npx skills add color4-alt/CiteCheck --skill citecheck
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/color4-alt/CiteCheck

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install CiteCheck, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,190 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00078 $0.01190
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00595
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00119

Measured 6d ago against content hash 50921eb2c602, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citecheck 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 6d 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.

skills/citecheck/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CiteCheck — Paper Citation Verification

Overview

CiteCheck verifies academic paper citations by combining structured parsing with agent-native LLM evaluation. It supports LaTeX source files (preferred) and PDF fallback.

Workflow

  1. Parse paper: Call citecheck CLI to read LaTeX (preferred) or PDF, extract references and body text
  2. Format check: Call citecheck CLI to validate bibliography entries
  3. Queryability verification: Call citecheck CLI to verify existence via Crossref / Semantic Scholar
  4. Evaluate thematic relevance: Evaluate directly using the agent's reasoning capabilities — compare cited paper title/abstract/venue against the citing paper
  5. Evaluate semantic accuracy: Evaluate directly using the agent's reasoning capabilities — compare in-text citation context against cited source content
  6. Generate report: Aggregate all results into a Markdown report

Why matching steps are not done by the CLI The citecheck CLI can run standalone with optional --api-key for external LLM-powered matching. When used as a Skill, the host agent itself possesses LLM reasoning capabilities. Direct evaluation is faster, more consistent, and requires no additional API keys from the user.


1. Parse Paper (CLI)

LaTeX source (preferred)

citecheck path/to/latex_project/ --skip-verification --skip-semantic -o parsed_report.md

Or parse a single file:

citecheck main.tex --skip-verification --skip-semantic -o parsed_report.md

PDF (fallback)

citecheck paper.pdf --skip-verification --skip-semantic -o parsed_report.md

--skip-verification and --skip-semantic are required in Skill mode because steps 3–5 are performed directly by the agent.


2. Format Check (CLI)

Call citecheck to check and report format issues:

Check item Description
Required fields Author, title, year, venue completeness
Format consistency Punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation uniformity
DOI/URL If present, whether format is correct and accessible
Year sanity No 202x placeholders, not in the future

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 144 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 50921eb2c602

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citecheck is a skill published in the GitHub repository color4-alt/CiteCheck (59 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,190 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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