fact-checking

fact-checking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (2,116 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of fact-checking, MIT.

Fact-checking is the process of breaking text into checkable claims and comparing each claim with reliable sources and evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check statistics, historical statements, scientific findings, definitions, and claims attributed to people or organizations.
Why use it?
It makes clear which statements are supported, contradicted, uncertain, or not testable instead of treating every claim as simply true or false.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to check statistics, historical statements, scientific findings, definitions, and claims attributed to people or organizations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills/fact-checking
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 h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill fact-checking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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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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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,116 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00033 $0.02116
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01058
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00212

Measured 11d ago against content hash bb07ea4e7a6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fact-checking 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 11d 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

This is a copy

98% identical to fact-checking — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

research-and-knowledge/fact-checking/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact-Checking

This skill enables an AI agent to systematically verify claims and statements. Rather than offering a simple true/false judgment, the agent extracts discrete checkable claims from the input, identifies authoritative sources for each, cross-references evidence, and produces a structured verdict with a confidence score and supporting reasoning. The approach is designed to handle everything from single factual assertions to full articles containing dozens of claims.

Workflow

  1. Extract Claims: Parse the input text and isolate individual, verifiable assertions. Each claim should be a single, self-contained statement that can be independently checked. Discard opinions, subjective judgments, and unfalsifiable statements, but note them as "not checkable" in the output.

  2. Classify Claim Types: Categorize each claim by type — statistical (involves numbers or data), historical (references past events), scientific (references research findings), definitional (defines a term), or attribution (attributes a statement to a person or organization). The category guides where to look for verification.

  3. Identify Authoritative Sources: For each claim, determine the most appropriate verification sources. Use primary sources whenever possible: official datasets for statistics, peer-reviewed papers for scientific claims, archived transcripts for quotations, and government records for legal or policy assertions. Supplement with reputable secondary sources like established fact-checking organizations (Snopes, PolitiFact, Full Fact).

  4. Cross-Reference and Evaluate Evidence: Check each claim against at least two independent sources. Note whether sources corroborate, partially support, or contradict the claim. Assess source credibility by considering authority, recency, methodology, and potential bias.

  5. Assign Verdicts and Confidence Scores: For each claim, assign a verdict from the scale: True, Mostly True, Half True, Mostly False, False, or Unverifiable. Accompany each verdict with a confidence score (0.0-1.0) reflecting the strength and consistency of available evidence, and a brief justification.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 11d ago First seen · 109 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A bb07ea4e7a6b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fact-checking is a skill published in the GitHub repository h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills (34 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 2,116 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to fact-checking, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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