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.
npx skills add mronkko/claude-academic-research --skill verifying-citationsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mronkko/claude-academic-researchWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/verifying-citations)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/verifying-citations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/verifying-citations/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/verifying-citations"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mronkko/claude-academic-research/verifying-citations.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Rogue Agent · line 104 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00000 | $0.02186 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01093 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00437 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00219 |
Grade A, and why
verifying-citations 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
verifying-citations
Overview
A citation is verified when an externally consulted source (Zotero PDF fulltext or abstract — never training memory) directly supports the claim the manuscript attributes to it. Verification is staged: read the abstract first; escalate to full text only when the abstract is silent, ambiguous, or insufficient for the kind of claim being made.
This skill is the single source of truth for citation-verification doctrine. fact-check (one-shot audits) and the evidence critic in critic-loop (iterative revision) both load it so that when the rules change, two skills don't drift.
Insertion vs verification. The complementary skill grounded-citations governs inserting a citation during drafting — same externalised-consultation rule, but it escalates on recency / context staling (a faded context-window memory needs re-fetching). This skill governs auditing an existing citation, and it escalates on claim type — quoted passages, specific β coefficients, and method details always require fulltext regardless of what the abstract says. Same demand for grounding; different decision axis.
Unit of dispatch: one subagent per unique citation, not per mention. A paper cited five times in a manuscript becomes one subagent (with five mentions in its prompt), not five subagents. This (a) fetches the source once and (b) lets the subagent catch cross-mention inconsistency — e.g. the manuscript citing the same paper for X in Methods and ¬X in Discussion — which per-mention dispatch can't see. See Multiple mentions of one source below.
Classification scheme
| Classification | When to assign |
|---|---|
| VERIFIED | The source directly supports the claim — sign, direction, finding, and magnitude all match. |
| MINOR | The claim overreaches the source: oversimplified finding, missing caveat the source considers important, paraphrase that mildly overstates. |
| MAJOR | The paper doesn't exist under that key; wrong paper for the key; direction reversal; fabricated quote; specific finding not supported by the source. Blocks publication. |
| UNVERIFIABLE | Verification requires the full text and no PDF is attached to the Zotero item. The issue is access, not accuracy — recommend running enrich_pdfs.py to populate the library, or replacing the citation. Callers may map UNVERIFIABLE to MAJOR for their own report when the workflow can't ship an unresolved citation (e.g. inside critic-loop). |
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 144 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A c7fe6513d3d7
verifying-citations is a skill published in the GitHub repository mronkko/claude-academic-research (23 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,186 tokens. 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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