source-credibility-evaluation-protocol

source-credibility-evaluation-protocol is a skill for Claude Code from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (4,662 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A source-checking protocol for judging whether online information is trustworthy. Lateral reading means leaving a webpage to compare it with other sources before accepting its claims.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for creating lessons or activities that teach students how to check online sources and credibility.
Why use it?
It helps learners detect unreliable websites, social media claims, and other digital information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the education-agent-skills plugin — 146 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for creating lessons or activities that teach students how to check online sources and credibility.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/garethmanning/education-agent-skills/source-credibility-evaluation-protocol
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 GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill source-credibility-evaluation-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install education-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 146 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,662 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 unknown 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 $0.00040 $0.04662
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.02331
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00932
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00466

Measured 8d ago against content hash cdf5a4d859aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-credibility-evaluation-protocol 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 8d 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/literacy-critical-thinking/source-credibility-evaluation-protocol/SKILL.md · 299 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

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. 8d ago First seen · 299 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A cdf5a4d859aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-credibility-evaluation-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository GarethManning/education-agent-skills (764 stars, last pushed 14d ago), with no licence file. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 4,662 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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