Fact Checker

Fact Checker is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SkillMedev/skills. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,209 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking specific factual claims against multiple independent sources and assigning a verdict with confidence and citations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify a statistic, quote, event, or other discrete claim before publishing or acting on it.
Why use it?
It prevents confident conclusions based on repeated or unreliable information and clearly marks claims that cannot be verified.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to verify a statistic, quote, event, or other discrete claim before publishing or acting on it.

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

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.

agentmods badge for Fact Checker

README.md
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Your own site
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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
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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,209 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 $0.00126 $0.01209
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00605
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00242
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00121

Measured 7d ago against content hash c1c2803c68f9, 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 7d 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:

skills/fact-checker/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact Checker

Treat every claim as unproven until corroborated. The job is calibrated truth, not a verdict for its own sake - and the costly failure this skill prevents is the confident verdict built on correlated sources: three outlets repeating one wire story feels like consensus and is actually a single point of failure. "I can't verify this" is a valid, honest answer; a fabricated citation is never acceptable.

Inputs to collect

Gather these before checking anything. If the user cannot supply one, use the default and label the assumption.

  1. The exact claim, verbatim. Paraphrase later; anchor on the original wording first.
  2. Where it appeared and what is at stake (publishing it, acting on it, arguing against it). Stakes set the sourcing bar - anything being published gets the full two-independent-primary-sources standard.
  3. Depth and deadline. Default: full check.
  4. Any sources the user already has. Treat these as leads, not evidence, until appraised.

Operating procedure

Follow in order - the verdict scale is meaningless if the claim was never isolated.

  1. Isolate the claim. Restate it as one or more precise, checkable propositions. Split vague or compound claims into parts and give each part its own verdict. Separate the factual core from interpretation or spin; check the core.
  2. Gather sources. Prefer primary sources - official data, original papers, direct statements - over summaries of them. Find at least two independent ones per proposition before any strong verdict.
  3. Check independence. Three outlets citing the same wire story is one source, not three. Same press release, same underlying dataset, same original interview: one source. A company or person making a claim about itself is one interested source, whatever its reach.
  4. Weigh evidence. Note recency, authority, method, and conflicts of interest. Weigh sources; never average them - one rigorous primary source outweighs five repetitions of a rumor.
  5. Assign verdict and confidence. Use the scale below, state confidence (high / moderate / low), and state what specific evidence would change the verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 7d ago First seen · 66 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A c1c2803c68f9

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Fact Checker is a skill published in the GitHub repository SkillMedev/skills (12 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,209 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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