citevahti-screen

citevahti-screen is a skill for Claude Code from heidihelena/citevahti. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-submission bibliography checker for research papers. A bibliography is the list of sources cited in a paper; this checker flags retracted papers, expressions of concern, and sources that may not support the claims they are cited for.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to screen a complete reference list, check whether cited papers are still reliable, and identify citations that need a second look.
Why use it?
It gives researchers a review list of citation problems before submission, when there is still time to investigate them. It only reports issues and does not change the bibliography.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit Use it to screen a complete reference list, check whether cited papers are still reliable, and identify citations that need a second look.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/heidihelena/citevahti/citevahti-screen
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-screen
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 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,055 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 $0.00075 $0.01055
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00105

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7728224e3bd8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citevahti-screen 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.

skills/citevahti-screen/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CiteVahti screen — sweep the reference list before a reviewer does

citevahti-dev checks claims one at a time as you write. This skill sweeps the references you already have and flags what a reviewer would catch — retractions, expressions of concern, and citations whose source does not support the sentence. It is a read-only worklist: nothing is fixed, removed, or written back.

Triggers

Use when the researcher asks to:

  • check a manuscript or reference list for retracted papers before submitting
  • screen a bibliography for problems in one sweep
  • get a triage list of citations that need a second look

Do NOT use when: the ask is to check a single new claim (citevahti-dev), package a finished audit (citevahti-report), or review someone else's manuscript (citevahti-review).

What it checks (each a real command; nothing is auto-fixed)

  • The citation suitecitevahti test --online. Runs the "unit tests for citations" over the ledger and, with --online, also checks each cited reference is real and not retracted. This is the single closest thing to "screen the whole manuscript."
  • Retraction statuscitevahti retraction-scan (bare = scan every staged reference; or --citekey / --doi / --pmid for one). Cross-checks against retraction and expression-of-concern notices. A clean result is "no known retraction," not a warranty that every one was caught.
  • Claim–source supportcitevahti claim-check --claim "<sentence>" (deterministic, read-only, against your Zotero library). Flags citations whose source likely does not support the sentence, for the human to check.
  • Triage worklistcitevahti triage. Surfaces what needs attention, worst first, each with a plain reason and next action.

There is no single citevahti screen <file> command — screening is this read-only sweep composed from the commands above, ending in a triage list.

Output — a triage list, ranked by severity

citevahti test --online       # citation suite incl. real-and-not-retracted checks
citevahti retraction-scan     # retraction / expression-of-concern sweep
citevahti triage              # the worst-first worklist to hand back

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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 · 86 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 7728224e3bd8

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citevahti-screen is a skill published in the GitHub repository heidihelena/citevahti (1 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,055 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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