verify-answer

verify-answer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheAiSingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt-based checking guide that breaks an answer into individual factual claims and compares each one with the evidence provided. It labels claims as verified, unsupported, or contradicted.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fact-check reports, summaries, and analyses by providing the answer and its source text, URLs, or other evidence.
Why use it?
It helps find claims that are missing support or conflict with the supplied sources before you rely on a research answer or summary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theaisingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss/verify-answer
Any agent
npx skills add TheAiSingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss --skill verify-answer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheAiSingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,720 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00066 $0.01720
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00172

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6242ffa5e2ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verify-answer 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 4d 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/verify-answer/SKILL.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

verify-answer

Decomposes an answer into atomic factual claims and checks each against the evidence the user provides. Returns a clean per-claim report so the user can see exactly what the answer got right, what it got wrong, and what the sources didn't cover.

This skill is prompt-only — no tools, no network, no MCP server required. It works in any Claude installation. Built on the Chain-of-Verification pattern (Dhuliawala et al., 2023).

Looking for the automated version? The full agentic-research-engine-oss pipeline runs this verification step automatically after every synthesized answer, sources included. Install with pip install agentic-research-engine or /plugin marketplace add https://github.com/TheAiSingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss.


How to use

Paste an answer and the sources it cites, then invoke:

/verify-answer

Or ask in plain English: "verify this," "fact-check these claims," or "is this supported by the sources?"

What I need from you:

  1. The answer — the paragraph, bullet list, or report you want verified.
  2. The evidence — the sources it was based on. One of these forms:
    • Copy-pasted text from the sources, OR
    • URLs (I'll note which claims reference which URL but can't fetch them if I don't have browsing), OR
    • A structured list like [1] <source text>, [2] <source text>.

If you only paste the answer without evidence, I'll ask what sources you want it checked against.


How I verify

For every answer, I run this protocol:

  1. Decompose — I extract each standalone factual claim as one line. A claim is something like "Paxlovid reduced hospitalization by 44 %" — a specific, checkable statement. I ignore editorial hedging, conclusions, and meta-sentences.
  2. Check — For each claim, I look through the evidence and mark it:
    • VERIFIED — the claim is directly supported by the evidence.
    • UNVERIFIED — the evidence doesn't mention this claim (not wrong, just unsupported).
    • CONTRADICTED — the evidence explicitly says something different from the claim.
  3. Report — Each claim on its own line with its verdict and a one-sentence justification referencing the evidence number.
  4. SummaryX/Y claims verified + the ratio + any red flags.

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 6242ffa5e2ce

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verify-answer is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheAiSingularity/agentic-research-engine-oss (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,720 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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