infrastructure-reference-citation

infrastructure-reference-citation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from docxology/template. It costs 142 tokens per session (924 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A BibTeX utility for reading, writing, converting, and generating bibliographic references. BibTeX is a text format commonly used to store paper details such as authors, titles, journals, and years.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for parsing `.bib` files, creating citation records, generating citation keys, converting paper data, and writing reference databases.
Why use it?
It helps keep reference files consistent with the format expected by manuscript and PDF-building tools. It can also turn paper records into citation entries.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/docxology/template/citation
Any agent
npx skills add docxology/template --skill citation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 924 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 $0.00142 $0.00924
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00092

Measured yesterday against content hash 89442960db56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

infrastructure-reference-citation 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 8 executable files (__init__.py, __main__.py, bibtex_parser.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.

infrastructure/reference/citation/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Submodule

BibTeX I/O matching projects/templates/template_code_project/manuscript/references.bib.

Reading

from infrastructure.reference.citation import parse_bibfile, parse_bibtex

db = parse_bibfile("projects/templates/template_code_project/manuscript/references.bib")
print(len(db))                      # 8
print(db.keys())                    # ['nocedal2006numerical', ...]
entry = db.find("boyd2004convex")
print(entry.entry_type)             # 'article'
print(entry.get("author"))          # 'Boyd, Stephen and Vandenberghe, Lieven'
print(db.preamble)                  # The @comment{...} block

Writing

from collections import OrderedDict
from infrastructure.reference.citation import (
    BibEntry, BibDatabase, render_database, write_bibfile
)

db = BibDatabase()
db.add(BibEntry(
    "article", "smith2024example",
    OrderedDict([
        ("title", "An Example Paper"),
        ("author", "Smith, Alice and Jones, Bob"),
        ("journal", "Cambridge UP"),
        ("year", "2024"),
        ("pages", "1-10"),       # auto-normalised to "1--10"
        ("doi", "10.1234/example"),
    ]),
))
print(render_database(db))
write_bibfile("output/refs.bib", db)

Convert from a search result

from infrastructure.reference.citation import paper_to_bibentry, generate_citation_key
from infrastructure.search.literature import Paper

paper = Paper(id="x", title="Adam", authors=["Kingma, Diederik P", "Ba, Jimmy"], year=2014, venue="ICLR", venue_type="conference")
entry = paper_to_bibentry(paper)        # entry_type → "inproceedings", key → "kingma2014adam"

# Override either field:
entry = paper_to_bibentry(paper, citation_key="my_custom_key", entry_type="misc")

# Or generate a key without converting:
key = generate_citation_key(authors=["Cauchy, Augustin-Louis"], year=1847, title="Méthode générale")
# → "cauchy1847methode"

CLI

# Validate
uv run python -m infrastructure.reference.citation.cli validate refs.bib --strict

# Re-format in canonical layout
uv run python -m infrastructure.reference.citation.cli format refs.bib

# Convert literature-search JSON → BibTeX
uv run python -m infrastructure.reference.citation.cli convert papers.json refs.bib

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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. yesterday First seen · 101 lines · 142 tokens per session scan A 89442960db56

Subscribe to this mod's changes

infrastructure-reference-citation is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 924 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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