Source Validation

Source Validation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from notforyou23/home23. It costs 16 tokens per session (240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for checking whether claims and their sources are trustworthy, current, traceable, and potentially biased. It favors original sources over summaries when possible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify claims, identify the best supporting source, check authorship and dates, compare disagreements, and report confidence and possible bias.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of treating popular, outdated, derivative, or circularly cited information as fact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to verify claims, identify the best supporting source, check authorship and dates, compare disagreements, and report confidence and possible bias.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notforyou23/home23/source-validation
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 notforyou23/home23 --skill source-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notforyou23/home23

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 240 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 $0.00016 $0.00240
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00096
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00024

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c44018e089a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Source Validation 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 1mo 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.

workspace/skills/source-validation/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Source validation

Use for an explicit audit of a source or disputed claim. Ordinary research follows the core evidence standard without loading this reference.

Trace the claim to its closest primary evidence. Check authorship, dates, context, and whether supposedly independent reports repeat the same source. Distinguish what the source establishes from the author's interpretation and your inference.

Return the claim, the supporting or contradicting evidence, and the material limits. Link usable sources. Popularity and recent publication alone do not establish reliability; report unresolved uncertainty plainly.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed · -34 lines · -8 tokens per session c44018e089a6
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 68 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A d430e71cf107

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Source Validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository notforyou23/home23 (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 240 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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