fact-check

fact-check is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind. It costs 77 tokens per session (592 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that extracts factual claims from text or a page and checks them against the visible context and available sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify articles, cited sources, dates, numbers, quotations, and other checkable claims, then identify what evidence should be checked next.
Why use it?
It separates supported claims from weak, contradicted, unsupported, or still-unverified statements instead of treating every assertion as true.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to verify articles, cited sources, dates, numbers, quotations, and other checkable claims, then identify what evidence should be checked next.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/fact-check
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 surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind --skill fact-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind

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-check

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/fact-check"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/fact-check/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-check

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 592 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 $0.00077 $0.00592
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00059

Measured 9d ago against content hash f77248930571, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fact-check 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 9d 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.

skills/fact-check/SKILL.md · 37 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 37 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact Check

Pull the factual claims out of the page and check each against the visible context and available sources. Never invent facts, quotes, numbers, or sources, present a guess as established, or overclaim what the evidence actually supports.

  1. Extract concrete, checkable claims from the selected or visible content. Skip pure opinions unless they imply facts, and watch for cited sources, links, dates, and numbers that a claim should trace to.
  2. Check each claim against the visible context, its cited sources, and any web search or MCP/tool results available. Prefer primary and official sources when a claim affects money, health, legal, safety, or reputation decisions.
  3. Classify each claim: supported, weakly supported, unsupported, contradicted, or needs more evidence. If a claim is ambiguous (a date that conflates two events, a word like "all" or "always" that may overstate), split it or mark it weakly supported rather than forcing a clean verdict.
  4. When support is incomplete, say what is missing and what evidence would change the verdict.

Report each claim with its Status, Evidence used, Reasoning, and what to verify next. Preserve exact names, numbers, links, dates, and currencies, and don't let a single low-quality source settle a claim on its own.

Example

Page text: "The EU AI Act took effect in 2024 and bans all facial recognition."

Claim: The EU AI Act took effect in 2024. Status: Weakly supported Evidence used: The page shows a 2024 date but blurs the entry into force date with the later phased application dates. Reasoning: The Act entered into force in 2024, yet most obligations apply later, so "took effect" is only partly accurate. Verify next: The official EU legislation timeline for when each obligation starts to apply.

Claim: The EU AI Act bans all facial recognition. Status: Contradicted Evidence used: No source on the page supports a blanket ban; the linked summary lists narrow exceptions. Reasoning: The Act restricts specific real-time biometric uses rather than banning all facial recognition, so "all" overstates it. Verify next: The exact prohibited and high-risk categories in the primary text.

Read the full file on GitHub · 37 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. 9d ago First seen · 37 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A f77248930571

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fact-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 592 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.