evidence-traceability-audit

evidence-traceability-audit is a skill for Claude Code from uqeu/estelle-cli. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,603 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A citation-checking procedure that reopens each referenced source and tests whether it supports the claim. It also checks that reported numbers can be reproduced from the cited source or code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit evidence in research reports, analyses, and generated answers. It checks source references, traces claims to files or code, and flags unsupported results.
Why use it?
It helps catch made-up citations, unsupported statements, and numbers that no one can reproduce. This makes research and technical answers easier to verify.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the estelle plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit evidence in research reports, analyses, and generated answers. It checks source references, traces claims to files or code, and flags unsupported results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uqeu/estelle-cli/evidence-traceability-audit
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 uqeu/estelle-cli --skill evidence-traceability-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uqeu/estelle-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install estelle, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 9 hooks.

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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 1,603 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 $0.01603
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00641
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00321
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00160

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a670d711e442, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evidence-traceability-audit 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 1mo 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.

estelle-plugin/skills/evidence-traceability-audit/SKILL.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

evidence-traceability-audit

Estelle's evidence-traceability skill, from Google Cloud AI Research's ScientistOne (arXiv:2605.26340, project page scientist-one.github.io) and its Chain-of-Evidence design axiom "every claim traceable to evidence." The mechanism inverts that axiom into an adversarial check: for every claim AND every citation an answer already carries, RE-RESOLVE it against live recall — a [source] header that points at nothing is a FABRICATED CITATION, and a number no cited source or green run reproduces is an UNREPRODUCIBLE NUMBER. Any claim that can't be traced back fails the deterministic merge gate. It runs on the real primitives: retrieve_cited (serve/memory_pipeline.py) returns (text, source_file) pairs; cite_block heads each with its [source]; hybrid RRF (rrf_fuse / fuse_ranked_texts, serve/hybrid.py) does the recall; code_search (serve/memory_facade.py) re-resolves a citation to an exact file:line with no embedding; GroundingReport.is_grounded (agent/grounding.py) checks uncited claims against the real symbol graph; run_and_repair_suite / parse_suite_output (agent/verify_suite.py) reproduce a claimed number from the repo's own suite; and _gate_verdict (serve/api.py, POST /gate) returns merge: false. Distinct from atomic-fact-audit, which LABELS each claim Supported/Unsupported/Contradicted and returns a FActScore precision number, and from provenance-trail, which ATTACHES a receipts chain to an answer it already trusts: this skill is the trace-back that HUNTS fabricated citations and unreproducible numbers and HARD-FAILS the gate on any untraceable claim.

When to run

Before shipping any answer, report, or PR description that CITES sources or quotes numbers — a benchmark result, a "per orders.py …" attribution, a metric in a design note. It earns its keep exactly when the draft was written with confident-looking citations, because a made-up [source] reads identically to a real one until you try to resolve it. Run it on load-bearing, contestable output; skip it on trivia.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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. 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a670d711e442

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evidence-traceability-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository uqeu/estelle-cli (0 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,603 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 2026-09-12.

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