source-validation-skill

source-validation-skill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thesongzhu/Friday. It costs 0 tokens per session (125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A source-checking aid that reviews whether information comes from reliable, relevant, and potentially biased sources. A source can be a webpage, paper, report, or other reference.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review references and citations, assess an author's credibility and publication date, fact-check information, and summarize reliability concerns.
Why use it?
It helps separate trustworthy evidence from information that may be outdated, irrelevant, poorly supported, or influenced by bias. It also reduces the risk of presenting unchecked claims as facts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review references and citations, assess an author's credibility and…

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 125 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 $0.00000 $0.00125
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00013

Measured 7d ago against content hash 192c1c06d255, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

source-validation-skill 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (run.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

managed-skills/source-validation-skill/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Source Validation Skill

Validates the credibility of information sources, highlighting reliability, relevance, and potential biases.

Features

  • Reliability scoring
  • Bias detection
  • Relevance filtering

Instructions

  • Check references and citations
  • Evaluate author credibility and publication date
  • Highlight trustworthy content
  • Output verified sources, key insights, and notes on reliability

Constraints

  • Avoid presenting unverified information as fact
  • Prioritize high-quality, authoritative sources

Typical triggers:

  • validate these sources
  • check the credibility of this
  • is this source reliable
  • fact check this information
Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 192c1c06d255

Subscribe to this mod's changes

source-validation-skill is a skill published in the GitHub repository thesongzhu/Friday (838 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 125 tokens. 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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