source-verification

source-verification is a skill for Claude Code from HezaoHezao/poirot. It costs 27 tokens per session (362 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research method for checking whether sources support factual claims, statistics, quotations, and other evidence-based statements.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify claims, find multiple trustworthy sources, compare their evidence, and label uncertain conclusions.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of accepting an unsupported claim or a misleading search summary by comparing independent sources and the original material.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps identify claims, find multiple trustworthy sources, compare their evidence, and label uncertain conclusions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hezaohezao/poirot/source-verification
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 HezaoHezao/poirot --skill source-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HezaoHezao/poirot

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for source-verification

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/source-verification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hezaohezao/poirot/source-verification.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 362 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00027 $0.00362
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00181
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8406d1d560c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-verification 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.

poirot/backend/agents/skill/builtin_skills/core/source-verification/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Source Verification

何时使用

研究涉及事实声明、统计数据、引用或任何需要可信背书的信息时。不适用于纯推理或用户主观偏好类问题。

核心原则

任何事实声明在写入 observation 前,至少需一个独立信源交叉核验。 单一信源的可信度不足以支撑结论。

步骤

  1. 识别声明:从研究问题或中间结论中抽出需验证的事实声明。
  2. 定位信源:用 web_search 找 2 个以上独立来源(不同机构/作者/时间)。优先一手来源(官方报告、论文原文)而非二手转述。
  3. 核验一致性:用 browse_page 读全文(非 snippet),比对关键数字/日期/结论是否一致。
  4. 记录可信度:在 observation 标注信源可信度(高/中/低)+ 不一致点。低可信度声明降级为"待证"。

失败模式(避免)

  • 只看 search snippet 就采信(snippet 常断章取义)
  • 两个来源实际互引(非独立)
  • 一手来源被二手来源误读(回溯原文)
  • 把"无法证伪"当"为真"
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 · 31 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 8406d1d560c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository HezaoHezao/poirot (215 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 362 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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