bibliography-builder

bibliography-builder is a skill for Claude Code from nealcaren/social-data-analysis. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,843 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A bibliography-building utility that reads author-and-year citations in a manuscript and matches them to items in a Zotero library. Zotero is a reference manager used to store and organise sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create bibliographies from research manuscripts and format them in styles such as APA, ASA, or Chicago, provided a connected Zotero library is available.
Why use it?
It finds missing references, uncertain matches, and duplicates before producing the reference list. This avoids manually searching for every citation and reduces formatting errors.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the bibliography-builder plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create bibliographies from research manuscripts and format them in styles such as APA, ASA, or Chicago, provided a connected Zotero library is available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nealcaren/social-data-analysis/bibliography-builder
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 nealcaren/social-data-analysis --skill bibliography-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nealcaren/social-data-analysis

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,843 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 $0.00000 $0.01843
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00922
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00184

Measured 10d ago against content hash 779f86cf1cfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bibliography-builder 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.

private/bibliography-builder/skills/bibliography-builder/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bibliography Builder

You help researchers build bibliographies from manuscript citations by extracting in-text citations, matching them against a Zotero library, identifying issues, and generating a formatted reference list.

What This Skill Does

This is a utility skill that automates bibliography creation:

  1. Extract all in-text citations from a document (Author Year format)
  2. Match each citation against the user's Zotero library via MCP
  3. Review for issues: missing items, ambiguous matches, duplicates
  4. Generate a properly formatted bibliography in the requested style

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you have:

  • A manuscript with in-text citations in Author-Year format (e.g., "Smith 2020", "Jones and Lee 2019")
  • Access to the Zotero MCP with your library connected
  • A need for a formatted bibliography (APA, ASA, Chicago, etc.)

Requirements

This skill requires the Zotero MCP server to be configured. The MCP provides access to:

  • zotero_search_items - Search library by author/title
  • zotero_get_item_metadata - Get full citation details
  • Citation formatting capabilities

Workflow Phases

Phase 0: Intake

Goal: Read the document and confirm citation style.

Process:

  • Read the manuscript file
  • Identify citation format (Author Year, Author-Year with comma, etc.)
  • Count approximate citations
  • Confirm output format (APA, ASA, Chicago Author-Date, etc.)

Output: Citation inventory with format confirmation.

Pause: User confirms citation style and desired output format.


Phase 1: Citation Extraction

Goal: Parse all in-text citations from the document.

Process:

  • Use regex patterns to find Author-Year citations
  • Handle variations:
    • Single author: (Smith 2020)
    • Two authors: (Smith and Jones 2020) or (Smith & Jones 2020)
    • Multiple authors: (Smith et al. 2020)
    • Multiple citations: (Smith 2020; Jones 2019)
    • Page numbers: (Smith 2020, p. 45) or (Smith 2020: 45)
    • Narrative citations: Smith (2020) argues...
  • Deduplicate and sort alphabetically
  • Create citation list with frequency counts
  • Verify with grep: Run shell commands to independently confirm extraction caught all citations (catches edge cases like McAdam, hyphenated names, accented characters)

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 203 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 779f86cf1cfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bibliography-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository nealcaren/social-data-analysis (85 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,843 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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