documenting-with-sources

documenting-with-sources is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mathbullet/skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Writing rules for Markdown documents that use outside sources, such as research summaries or paper explainers. They define how to cite factual claims, format references, and separate quotations from original writing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when preparing source-based reports, survey summaries, research explainers, or other Markdown deliverables that include facts from external publications.
Why use it?
They make it possible for readers to verify where each factual statement came from. They also prevent unsupported claims, unclear numeric citations, and quotations from being mixed into ordinary prose.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the documenting-with-sources plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mathbullet/skills/documenting-with-sources
Any agent
npx skills add mathbullet/skills --skill documenting-with-sources
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mathbullet/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install documenting-with-sources, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 625 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00078 $0.00625
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00313
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5a8c6545790e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

documenting-with-sources 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 6d 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.

plugins/documenting-with-sources/skills/documenting-with-sources/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Documenting with Sources

Common conventions for writing Markdown documents that pull from outside sources. Apply to any deliverable that surfaces facts taken from elsewhere — survey reports, paper explainers, and similar.

Cite every factual claim

Every factual claim in the deliverable must carry a citation. A claim with no citation cannot be verified, and is worthless as a documented finding. If a claim cannot be tied to a source, mark it explicitly (e.g. "citation not confirmed"). Do not slip uncited claims in silently.

Reference format

  • In-text references take the shape [label (YYYY/MM), location]. How to fill the label slot (publication name, author short-form, position-only for the paper under review, etc.) is decided by the calling skill.
  • Do not use bare numeric references such as [1] or [2]. Numbers alone force the reader to bounce between text and source list; readability drops.
  • For the formatting of quotation blocks themselves (code-block fencing, original-and-translation pairing, where to place the source reference, anti-patterns), follow the writing-quotation skill. Read writing-quotation before drafting.

Quotation vs prose

  • Keep quotations and prose (the writer's own summary or interpretation) visually and structurally separate. Even when not quoting, write in a way that prevents the source's claim and the writer's interpretation from blending.
  • When quoting a source written in a language other than the writer's working language, place the translation alongside the original inside the same code block (see writing-quotation).

No fabricated associations or interpretations

Do not write interpretations, speculation, or associations that the source itself does not contain.

  • Do not invent connections such as "this relates to X", "this could be applied to Y", or "this suggests Z" when the source does not say so.
  • Do not import context from the surrounding conversation or the calling project into the body of the document. Descriptions of a source must stay within the source's own content.
  • Good: "Main criticism: even with flipped labels, accuracy does not always drop, and the text-gradient is mathematically distinct from classical gradient descent" (states what the source actually says).
  • Bad: "Relation to AI writing improvement: feedback-based improvement is mathematically different from gradient descent..." (the source does not say this; the connection is fabricated from conversation context).

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 5a8c6545790e

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documenting-with-sources is a skill published in the GitHub repository mathbullet/skills (119 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 625 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 2026-08-30.

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