fact-check-prompt

fact-check-prompt is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (14,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fact-checking checklist turns an article into a list of claims that need verification, with questions, source types, priorities, and checking methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports checking interviews, quotes, biographies, statistics, surveys, data comparisons, and legal or regulatory statements.
Why use it?
It helps writers and editors avoid missing important claims or spending equal effort on low- and high-risk details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It supports checking interviews, quotes, biographies, statistics, surveys, data comparisons, and legal or regulatory statements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/fact-check-prompt
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill fact-check-prompt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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-prompt

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-check-prompt

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/fact-check-prompt"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/fact-check-prompt.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 14,532 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 117
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.14532
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.07266
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.02906
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01453

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9b708eb588c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fact-check-prompt 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 8d 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/magazine-journalism/editing/fact-check-prompt/SKILL.md · 692 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 692 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fact Check Prompt

What This Skill Does

Generates a systematic fact-checking checklist from a draft article, categorizing every verifiable claim by type and priority, with the specific verification question, recommended source type, and appropriate verification strategy for each. Handles six distinct claim categories — each with its own methodology, red flags, and common errors.

When To Use This Skill

  • You have finished a draft and want to ensure you have not missed any checkable claim before submitting
  • You are fact-checking a piece written by another reporter and need a structured inventory of everything that requires verification
  • You are on deadline and need to triage — identify which claims carry the most risk and need to be checked first
  • You are training a new researcher or fact-checker and want a model for what a systematic check looks like
  • You are reviewing an interview-heavy piece and need to verify quotes, titles, credentials, and biographical claims
  • You are checking a data-driven article and need to verify statistical claims, survey methodology, and numerical comparisons
  • You are editing a piece with legal or regulatory claims and need to confirm statutory citations, court rulings, and regulatory actions
  • You are reviewing a story that references scientific studies and need to verify research findings, sample sizes, and journal citations
  • You are working on a historical feature and need to verify dates, sequences of events, causation claims, and archival references

What You Need To Provide

For any fact-check

Required: The draft article text (or the section to be fact-checked); the publication type (news, magazine feature, investigative, profile, opinion with reported elements, data journalism piece). Optional: Which claims you are already confident about (to exclude from the list); any specific high-risk areas you are concerned about; the publication's fact-checking standard (light editorial check vs. full verification with source documentation); whether the piece will appear in print (corrections are permanent) or online (corrections can be appended).

Read the full file on GitHub · 692 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 692 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 9b708eb588c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

fact-check-prompt is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (32 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 14,532 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 2026-09-04.

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