citation-fixer

citation-fixer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from garrytan/gbrain. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker and repair tool for source notes in a personal knowledge store. It finds missing or malformed inline citations and can restore missing links to X posts when their identifiers can be resolved through the X API.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan brain pages, report citation problems, correct citation formatting, and add deterministic links to referenced X or Twitter posts. It reports how many pages and citations were checked and fixed.
Why use it?
It removes the manual effort of checking whether facts have traceable sources and whether citations follow the required format. It also identifies post references that do not contain usable URLs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gbrain. Also seen: built for gbrain.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for.

Part of the gbrain plugin — 44 skills, 2 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to scan brain pages, report citation problems, correct citation formatting, and add deterministic links to referenced X or Twitter posts. It reports how many pages and citations were checked and fixed.

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About the project

GBrain is a memory and retrieval layer for AI agents that searches, connects, and synthesizes information from stored sources. It is used to give coding agents and autonomous agents access to knowledge beyond their current code, including shared company information with access controls. The catalogue add-ons help agents operate GBrain and connect it to agent workflows.

garrytan/gbrain · 29,702 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/garrytan/gbrain/citation-fixer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install gbrain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 2 plugins.

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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 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,544 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. Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high System Prompt Leakage · line 28
    Skill contains instructions that could directly expose system prompts, internal rules, or hidden instructions to users or external parties.
    Fix: Remove any instructions that reveal, print, or output system prompts or internal rules. System instructions should never be exposed to end users.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 175
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00067 $0.01544
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00772
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00154

Measured 9d ago against content hash abdadbf0740a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-fixer 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugin/skills/citation-fixer/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Fixer Skill

Convention: see conventions/quality.md for the canonical citation format every fix should match.

Output rule: all links MUST be deterministic (built from API data, not composed by LLM). See _output-rules.md.

Contract

This skill guarantees:

  • Every brain page is scanned for citation compliance.
  • Missing citations are flagged with specific location.
  • Malformed citations are fixed to match the standard format.
  • (v0.25.1) Tweet / post references without URLs are resolved via X API and patched with deterministic https://x.com/<handle>/status/<id> links.
  • Results reported with counts (scanned, fixed, remaining).

Phases

  1. Scan pages. List pages and read each one, checking for inline [Source: ...] citations.
  2. Identify issues:
    • Facts without any citation
    • Citations missing date
    • Citations missing source type
    • Citations with wrong format
    • (v0.25.1) Tweet references without x.com URLs
  3. Fix format issues. Rewrite malformed citations to match conventions/quality.md.
  4. (v0.25.1) Resolve tweet references via the X API integration.
  5. Report results. Count: pages scanned, citations found, issues fixed, tweets resolved, remaining gaps.

Tweet resolution pipeline (v0.25.1 extension)

For each broken tweet reference, follow this chain. The actual API call goes through whatever X integration the host has configured (typical shape: a recipe under recipes/x-api/ with handle / search-all endpoints).

Step 1: Identify broken references

Scan the page for patterns that indicate tweet references without URLs:

  • Contains words like tweeted, posted, said on X, RT, retweet, X post
  • Contains quoted text that looks like a tweet (short, punchy, often starts with a quote)
  • Has [Source: ... X/Twitter ...] without an x.com URL
  • References engagement metrics (likes, impressions) without a link

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 209 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A abdadbf0740a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citation-fixer is a skill published in the GitHub repository garrytan/gbrain (29,702 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,544 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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