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 muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills --skill citation-formattergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skillsWrote 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/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/citation-formatter)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/citation-formatter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/citation-formatter/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/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/citation-formatter"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills/citation-formatter.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.02308 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01154 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00462 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00231 |
Grade A, and why
citation-formatter 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 12d 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 — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Citation Formatter
Citation styles are the disciplinary "branding" of scholarly communication — they encode a field's epistemological values and allow readers to trace intellectual lineage, verify facts, and assess the recency of evidence.
Style Selection Guide
| Style | Primary Disciplines | In-Text Format | End List |
|---|---|---|---|
| APA 7th | Social Sciences, Psychology, Nursing, Education | (Author, Year, p. #) | References (alphabetical) |
| MLA 9th | Humanities, Literature, Languages | (Author Page #) | Works Cited (alphabetical) |
| Chicago NB | History, Fine Arts, Literature | Superscript numeral¹ | Bibliography (alphabetical) |
| Chicago AD | Physical, natural, social sciences | (Author Year, p.) | Reference List (alphabetical) |
| IEEE | Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics | [1] numbered | References (sequential) |
| Vancouver | Medicine, Biomedicine, Nursing | ¹ or (1) numbered | Reference List (sequential) |
| Harvard | UK/Australian universities (various disciplines) | (Author Year) | Reference List (alphabetical) |
| ACS | Chemistry | Numbered or author-date | References |
| CSE | Biology, Life Sciences | Citation-name or -sequence | References |
APA 7th Edition — Full Rules
In-Text Citations
- 1–2 authors: (Smith, 2021) / (Smith & Jones, 2021)
- 3+ authors: From the FIRST citation → (Taylor et al., 2018)
- No author: Use shortened title in quotes: ("Title," 2020)
- Corporate author: Spell out first time, abbreviate after: (World Health Organization [WHO], 2019), then (WHO, 2019)
- Same author, same year: Add a, b, c: (Smith, 2021a), (Smith, 2021b)
- Direct quote: Always add page number: (Smith, 2021, p. 45)
- Secondary source: (Original Author, Year, as cited in Secondary Author, Year)
- No date: Use (n.d.): (Smith, n.d.)
- Classical/sacred works: (Bible, King James Version, Genesis 1:1) — no reference entry needed
Reference List Rules
- Alphabetical by first author's surname
- Up to 20 authors listed in full; for 21+, list first 19, insert ellipsis, then final author
- No publisher location required (removed in 7th edition)
- DOIs and URLs formatted as active hyperlinks
- Sentence case for article and book titles; Title Case for journal names
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 214 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e4a4e88cb514
citation-formatter is a skill published in the GitHub repository muhammad1438/academic-writer-skills (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,308 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 2026-08-31.
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