verify-claims

verify-claims is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini. It costs 137 tokens per session (1,461 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that checks a draft for factual claims using a four-step verification process. It has a separate verifier review whether claims are supported, contradicted, or impossible to confirm.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check claims in documents such as Markdown, Quarto, or LaTeX files, optionally against specified papers, web pages, or other sources.
Why use it?
It helps catch statements that are not backed by the supplied sources before the draft is shared. The separate review reduces the chance that the original wording influences the fact check.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to check claims in documents such as Markdown, Quarto, or LaTeX files, optionally against specified papers, web pages, or other sources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pedrohcgs/claude-mini/verify-claims
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 pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini --skill verify-claims
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 137 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,461 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.
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 $0.00137 $0.01461
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.00731
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00292
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00146

Measured 10d ago against content hash 00db06574261, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-claims 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.

.claude/skills/verify-claims/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/verify-claims — Chain-of-Verification on a Draft

Fact-check a draft using the Post-Flight Verification protocol (.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md).

Input: $ARGUMENTS — path to a file containing the draft (markdown, .qmd, .tex, .md) or a shorthand pointer. Optional flags:

  • --source <path-or-url> — one or more source-material pointers (repeat for multiple). If omitted, the skill infers from context (e.g., papers referenced, cited arXiv URLs).
  • --no-fail-closed — downgrade FAIL outcomes to warnings without regeneration. Use sparingly.

When to pick this skill

  • /verify-claims (this skill) — ad-hoc fact-checking on any draft or text block the user hands you. One-shot, user-invoked.
  • Other skills that auto-run Post-Flight internally (/lit-review, /research-ideation, /respond-to-referees, /review-paper --peer) — no need to call this separately; they already run it.
  • /proofread — grammar, typos, overflow. Different lens.
  • /review-paper (default mode) — full manuscript review, not just claim verification.

How it works

Implements the 4-step CoVe loop from Dhuliawala et al. 2023 (arXiv:2309.11495), with architectural enforcement of the fresh-context independence trick.

Phase 0 — Pre-Flight

Confirm:

  • Draft file exists and is readable
  • At least one source pointer available (either --source or auto-detected from draft)
  • claim-verifier agent file exists at .claude/agents/claim-verifier.md

If any fail → surface the failure, do NOT proceed.

Phase 1 — Extract claims

Read the draft. Identify factual assertions of these types:

Type Example
Citation "Smith (2019, JEL) shows X"
Numerical fact "N = 10,000", "ATT = 0.42"
Negative literature "No prior work studies X"
Named entity researcher, paper title, venue, package, estimator name
Dataset claim "The CPS contains field educ_attain"

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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. 10d ago First seen · 127 lines · 137 tokens per session scan A 00db06574261

Subscribe to this mod's changes

verify-claims is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/Claude-Mini (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 137 tokens to every session and 1,461 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-08-31.

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