citation-forensics

citation-forensics is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch. It costs 193 tokens per session (12,884 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review method for checking whether citations are real, correctly described, and used to support the surrounding claim. A citation is a reference to a paper, dataset, website, or other source.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit bibliographies and citation context by checking source existence, metadata, attribution, and relevance.
Why use it?
It catches invented references, incorrect publication details, and citations whose actual content does not support what the text says.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps audit bibliographies and citation context by checking source existence, metadata, attribution, and relevance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch/citation-forensics
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 wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch --skill citation-forensics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 12,884 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 high

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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 $0.00193 $0.12884
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.06442
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.02577
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.01288

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8b14ef660cda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-forensics 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/citation-forensics/SKILL.md · 801 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 801 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Forensics — are the references real and honestly used?

Audit citation integrity for: $ARGUMENTS (requires claims.json from /evidence-ledger; reasons over its type:"citation" claims). Emit span-anchored citation-forensics.findings.json. This skill computes no verdict.

🔒 Do not wrap this skill in /loop, /schedule, or CronCreate. It is verdict-bearing input — it proposes the citation findings the deterministic adjudicator turns into the report. Re-firing it on a wall-clock timer adds no signal: its output changes only when the paper / ledger / bibliography changes, not with the clock, and each run spends real cross-model + lookup budget per cited key. Schedule the external wait that precedes it — bibliography finalized → ledger rebuilt → audit once. (Mirrors ARIS's external-cadence doctrine.)

Adapted from ARIS citation-audit, re-wired onto this repo's evidence ledger and the reviewer≠adjudicator contract, and reframed from "audit + rewrite the bib" to "emit ledger-anchored findings, never touch the paper." Three layers, ported verbatim: existence → metadata → context. Following the repo's baseline-comparison-audit pattern, the executor gathers the canonical facts (DBLP / arXiv / DOI) as neutral evidence; a fresh cross-model reviewer judges existence + metadata + context over those facts. The reviewer never grades — the deterministic adjudicator does.

Why this exists

An autoresearch pipeline (or a rushed human) generates a bibliography in a separate pass from the prose and never reconciles the two. The failure modes are not wildly fake entries — those are easy to spot. The dangerous ones are:

  • Hallucinated reference — no paper exists at the claimed arXiv id / DOI / venue; authors, title, or year are fabricated. (HP-CITE-HALLUC, critical)
  • Metadata drift — a real paper cited with the wrong year, wrong venue (the arXiv preprint number used after the work appeared at CVPR/ICML/NeurIPS, or vice versa), or a v1 title silently merged with a v3 retitle. (HP-CITE-HALLUC, major)
  • Wrong-context citation — a real paper used to support a claim it does not make, or argues against (e.g. citing a self-refinement paper to support "self-feedback yields correlated errors" when the cited paper argues the opposite). (HP-CITE-CONTEXT, major)

Read the full file on GitHub · 801 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. 12d ago First seen · 801 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A 8b14ef660cda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citation-forensics is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Anti-Autoresearch (153 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 12,884 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-30.

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