citevahti-dev

citevahti-dev is a skill for Claude Code from heidihelena/citevahti. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,719 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A development and research workflow for CiteVahti that checks whether claims in a manuscript are supported by their citations. It records the human decision, the AI’s advisory assessment, and an audit trail, with explicit confirmation before anything is added to Zotero, a reference manager.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check manuscript claims, review citation support, work with PubMed or PRISMA evidence reviews, assess references, or add verified sources to Zotero.
Why use it?
It helps researchers find unsupported claims and preserve a record of how each citation was assessed. The human remains responsible for the final decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the citevahti plugin — 13 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to check manuscript claims, review citation support, work with PubMed or PRISMA evidence reviews, assess references, or add verified sources to Zotero.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heidihelena/citevahti/citevahti-dev
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 heidihelena/citevahti --skill citevahti-dev
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/heidihelena/citevahti

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install citevahti, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,719 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 $0.00066 $0.01719
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00172

Measured 10d ago against content hash 69094ca1f043, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citevahti-dev 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 10d 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/citevahti-dev/SKILL.md · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CiteVahti — Citation Integrity for Manuscripts

Overview

CiteVahti runs unit tests on manuscript claims: each claim is a test case, each candidate paper is an assertion. It records a human → AI → adjudication decision chain with a hash-chained audit log.

The human is always the decider. The AI is a blinded advisory second rater only. Nothing is written to Zotero without explicit preview → confirm → commit.

Three doors — same product

Who says this What they mean
"Run unit tests on my manuscript" agents / technical users
"Check every claim before I cite it" researchers
"Create an auditable claim-evidence trail" journals / institutions

Triggers

Use when:

  • "Check if this citation supports the claim"
  • "Check my references" / "citation integrity"
  • "Add to Zotero" after evidence review
  • "PRISMA" / "systematic review" / "evidence synthesis"
  • "Citation-integrity report" for manuscript methods
  • [oo] / [o] / [r] / [d] claim states mentioned
  • "Blinded rating" / "dual rater" for citations
  • Desk rejection for citation quality

Do NOT use for: general PubMed search without a manuscript claim, Zotero library management unrelated to claim checking, screening / inclusion decisions.

Setup paths

Path A — FullVahti / Claude Desktop (no terminal)

Download citevahti.mcpb from the latest release, double-click, pick project folder. Bundled runtime — no Python needed. Run run_claim_tests in chat. Recommended for non-technical researchers.

Path B — Claude Code (MCP stdio)

pip install "citevahti[keyring,mcp]"
citevahti init
citevahti onboard --ncbi-email [email protected] --no-zotero-key --skip-validate
citevahti connect-zotero
claude mcp add citevahti -- citevahti start --root /path/to/project

Then run run_claim_tests prompt in chat.

citevahti start blocks in terminal — that is correct. It serves MCP stdio for the chat client. For hands-on terminal use, run citevahti-panel instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 10d ago First seen · 174 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 69094ca1f043

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citevahti-dev is a skill published in the GitHub repository heidihelena/citevahti (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,719 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 2026-08-31.

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