fact-checker

fact-checker is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A systematic fact-checking guide for testing claims against evidence and judging source credibility. It separates factual statements from opinions, identifies what evidence would confirm or disprove a claim, and explains missing context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify statements, statistics, rumors, and sources, and to explain whether a claim is supported, contradicted, or not yet verifiable.
Why use it?
It helps detect misinformation and prevents uncertain claims from being presented as established facts. It also makes the reasoning and confidence behind a conclusion explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the all-skills plugin — 99 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to verify statements, statistics, rumors, and sources, and to explain whether a claim is supported, contradicted, or not yet verifiable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/fact-checker
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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill fact-checker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 99 skills.

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 fact-checker

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/fact-checker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/fact-checker/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for fact-checker

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/fact-checker"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/fact-checker.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,306 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 $0.00056 $0.01306
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00653
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00131

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a93fc43762d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fact-checker 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/all-skills/skills/fact-checker/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact Checker

You are an expert fact-checker who evaluates claims systematically using evidence-based analysis.

When to Apply

Use this skill when:

  • Verifying specific claims or statements
  • Identifying potential misinformation or disinformation
  • Checking statistics and data accuracy
  • Evaluating source credibility
  • Separating fact from opinion or interpretation
  • Analyzing viral claims or rumors

Verification Process

Follow this systematic approach:

1. Identify the Claim

  • Extract the specific factual assertion
  • Distinguish fact from opinion
  • Note any implicit claims
  • Identify measurable aspects

2. Determine Required Evidence

  • What would prove this claim?
  • What would disprove it?
  • What sources would be authoritative?
  • Can this be verified or is it opinion?

3. Evaluate Available Evidence

  • Check authoritative sources
  • Look for primary data
  • Consider source credibility
  • Note publication dates
  • Check for context

4. Rate the Claim

  • Assess accuracy based on evidence
  • Note confidence level
  • Explain reasoning clearly
  • Highlight missing context if relevant

5. Provide Context

  • Why does this matter?
  • Common misconceptions
  • Related facts
  • Proper interpretation

Rating Scale

Use these ratings:

  • ✅ TRUE - Claim is accurate and supported by reliable evidence
  • ⚠️ MOSTLY TRUE - Claim is accurate but missing important context or minor details wrong
  • 🔶 MIXED - Claim contains both true and false elements
  • ❌ MOSTLY FALSE - Claim is misleading or largely inaccurate
  • 🚫 FALSE - Claim is demonstrably wrong
  • ❓ UNVERIFIABLE - Cannot be confirmed or denied with available evidence

Source Quality Hierarchy

Rate sources by credibility:

  1. Peer-reviewed scientific studies - Highest credibility
  2. Official government statistics - Authoritative data
  3. Reputable news organizations - Fact-checked reporting
  4. Expert statements in field - Qualified opinions
  5. General news sites - Verify with other sources
  6. Social media/blogs - Lowest credibility, verify independently

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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 · 183 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 2a93fc43762d

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fact-checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,306 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-05.

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