nature-ref-verifier

nature-ref-verifier is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 96 tokens per session (2,043 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference-checking workflow for academic papers, proposals, and BibTeX files. It compares citation details such as authors, titles, dates, pages, and DOIs across available sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify individual references or batches of references and identify problems with author order, publication details, page ranges, or DOI links.
Why use it?
It helps find incorrect, incomplete, or mismatched citations before they reach a manuscript or submission.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to verify individual references or batches of references and identify problems with author order, publication details, page ranges, or DOI links.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/academic-nature-nature-ref-verifier
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 hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill academic-nature-nature-ref-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 96 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,043 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 $0.00096 $0.02043
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01022
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00409
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00204

Measured 8d ago against content hash cb93af9dfa51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-ref-verifier 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.

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-nature-nature-ref-verifier/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

nature-ref-verifier — 学术参考文献多源验证技能

触发词

verify references校验文献check references核对参考文献文献验证ref check

适用场景

  • 开题报告/论文提交前,对全部参考文献做最终核查
  • 收到审稿意见指出引用错误时,精准定位问题
  • 从旧项目迁移参考文献到新论文时,批量验证有效性
  • Zotero 库定期健康检查

工作流

Step 1: 解析输入

支持三种输入格式:

A. 整篇论文/开题报告

  • 提取所有 [N] 编号的参考文献列表
  • 自动识别每条的 DOI(如有)

B. 单条参考文献

  • 用户直接粘贴一条引用文本
  • 或传入 Zotero item key

C. BibTeX 文件

  • 直接解析 .bib,逐条校验

Step 2: 多源并行查询

对每条文献,并行查询以下来源(可用哪些取决于环境配置):

来源 适用文献 典型覆盖率
Crossref 有 DOI 的外文期刊 ~70%(IEEE 老文献、中文期刊常有缺失)
IEEE Xplore IEEE 期刊/会议 IEEE DOI 404 时的备选
WebSearch (Bing/Google) 无 DOI 或来源缺失的文献 兜底方案
CNKI/万方 (kimi-datasource / webbridge) 中文期刊、学位论文 中文文献必查
Zotero 本地库 (zotero-mcp) 已入库文献 快速比对已有数据

查询策略: 优先用 DOI 查 Crossref,失败后降级用标题+作者搜 Web。

Step 3: 字段级对比

对每条文献执行以下对比矩阵,按严重程度分为三级:

🔴 Critical(必须修正)
检查项 说明 典型案例
作者姓名/顺序不一致 第一作者不同、顺序颠倒、完全编造 Smogavec→Leckebusch、Vainikainen→Mikhnev
页码差异 ≥5 页码完全不匹配 Noon: 1309-1319→1444-1449
标题核心词不一致 非大小写/标点差异 Iwasaki T→Wu K H、Zhang W→Zhu M H
DOI 指向不同论文 DOI 存在但标题/作者不对应 Abidi 1995: 10.1109/4.482157→10.1109/4.482187
🟡 Warning(建议核对)
检查项 说明 典型案例
卷年 ≠ DOI 年 卷归属年份与 DOI 编号年不一致 Dadrass 卷2025/上线2024、Ni 卷2022/DOI含2020
作者中间名缺失/多余 "Rabiner L" vs "Rabiner L R" 一般不影响检索
期号缺失 脚本有卷无期 Smogavec 2025: 17→17(10)
页码偏差 ≤4 细微差异 Leckebusch 15-24→15-25
出版社名写法差异 "IET" vs "IEE" 历史名称变更
🟢 Info(仅供参考)
检查项 说明
标题大小写不同 Title Case vs Sentence case
期刊名缩写 vs 全称 "IEEE Trans. AES" vs "IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems"
标点/连接词差异 "and" vs "&" 等

Step 4: 置信度评估

每条文献最终给出一个综合置信度:

等级 含义
Verified 多源一致,无需修改
⚠️ Check suggested 存在 🟡 级差异,需人工判断
Needs fix 存在 🔴 级差异,必须更正
Unverifiable 所有来源均无法查到(如内部报告、老旧学位论文)

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 178 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A cb93af9dfa51

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nature-ref-verifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 2,043 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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