fact-check

fact-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fmind/dot. It costs 19 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-checking procedure for articles, posts, talks, or README sections. It checks material claims and links against primary sources, such as official documentation, changelogs, or the source repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build a claim list, verify each claim, record its evidence and verdict, and suggest wording that is true at the time of checking.
Why use it?
It helps catch unsupported dates, numbers, versions, quotations, availability claims, and links before publication. It reports safer wording rather than silently changing published text.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to build a claim list, verify each claim, record its evidence and verdict, and suggest wording that is true at the time of checking.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fmind/dot/fact-check
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 fmind/dot --skill fact-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fmind/dot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 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 $0.00019 $0.00898
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00359
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00090

Measured 9d ago against content hash ad9fb73de7a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fact-check 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 9d 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/fact-check/SKILL.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact-Check

Verify every material claim and link in a draft article, post, talk, or README section, and add primary sources where a claim needs one. Report findings with narrowed wording that would be true today; rewrite only when asked. technical-publishing owns the publication pipeline, and a publishing project's local review skill (for example review-content) takes precedence for its own packages.

Workflow

  1. Scope the source: read the whole file and the author's raw notes when they exist; record the revision checked (git log -1 --format=%h -- <file> plus git status --short <file>). Published copy is immutable: report findings for an erratum instead of editing it.

  2. Build the claim ledger: one row per material assertion: versions, defaults, numbers, dates, comparisons, quotations, attributions, availability ("open source", "GA", "free"), and personal results. Skip opinions, but check the facts an opinion rests on.

    # Claim (exact quote) Kind Support Verdict Fix
  3. Verify, do not recognize: confirm each row against a primary source opened in this session: the vendor's documentation or changelog, the repository, the lockfile or installed version, the paper, the official announcement. Prefer the canonical page over an aggregator, blog summary, or model memory. Personal facts trace only to the author's notes or explicit input; never supply them.

  4. Check links: run lychee on the file, then open each cited page and confirm it says what the sentence claims; a resolving link that does not support its claim is the worse failure. A bare --include-fragments checks #anchor fragments only; use --include-fragments=full when the draft cites text fragments (#:~:text=).

    lychee --no-progress --include-fragments --max-retries 2 --format detailed <file>
    
  5. Add sources: for an unsupported but true claim, propose the primary link at the claim, not a generic homepage; keep the existing link style (inline, reference, footnote). For an outdated or inflated claim, propose the smaller true form. Never invent a URL; name the missing source instead.

  6. Report: verdict counts first (supported, outdated, unsupported, wrong, broken link), then the ledger rows that need action, ranked by reader impact. Include the date checked: versions, prices, and availability drift.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 9d ago Changed ad9fb73de7a4
  2. 11d ago Changed 34d7393b926e
  3. 12d ago First seen · 46 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A a73dafbd301b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fact-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository fmind/dot (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 898 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-05.

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