citation-audit

citation-audit is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 86 tokens per session (7,591 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A verification tool for checking whether a paper's bibliography entries are real, correctly described, and used to support the claims they accompany.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before submitting a paper to check citations against sources such as arXiv, DBLP, ACL Anthology, Nature, and OpenReview.
Why use it?
It catches fabricated papers, incorrect authors or dates, wrong publication versions, and citations that do not support the surrounding statement.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is [`shared-references/external-cadence.md`](../shared-references/external-cadence.md)..

Good fit Use it before submitting a paper to check citations against sources such as arXiv, DBLP, ACL Anthology, Nature, and OpenReview.

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About the project

ARIS is a collection of Markdown-based skills that define a workflow for autonomous machine-learning research, including idea discovery, experiment automation, and review loops. Researchers and AI coding agents use it across tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenClaw without depending on a single framework. The catalogue entries are ARIS workflow skills and agents.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · 16,030 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wanshuiyin/auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep/citation-audit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,591 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
  • Socket pass 18 May 2026
  • Snyk warn 18 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00086 $0.07591
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.03795
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.01518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00759

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7f68355f009a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citation-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 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/citation-audit/SKILL.md · 503 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 503 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Audit

🔒 Do not wrap this skill in /loop, /schedule, or CronCreate. It is verdict-bearing — it judges bibliographic correctness. Re-running that verdict on a timer adds no new signal (it changes only when the bibliography changes). Schedule the external wait that precedes it — bibliography finalized → then audit once. See shared-references/external-cadence.md.

Verify every \cite{...} in a paper against three independent layers:

  1. Existence — the cited paper actually exists at the claimed arXiv ID / DOI / venue.
  2. Metadata correctness — author names, year, venue, and title match canonical sources (DBLP, arXiv, ACL Anthology, Nature, OpenReview, etc.).
  3. Context appropriateness — the cited paper actually supports the claim it is being used to support in the manuscript.

This skill is the fourth layer of \aris{}'s evidence-and-claim assurance, complementing experiment-audit (code), result-to-claim (science verdict), and paper-claim-audit (numerical claims). Together they form a bottom-up integrity stack from raw evaluation code to manuscript bibliography.

When to Use This Skill

Run before submission. The right gating point is:

  • After paper-write has produced the LaTeX draft and bib file
  • After paper-claim-audit has verified numerical claims
  • Before final paper-compile for submission

Do not run this on a half-written draft — most of the work is in cross-checking each \cite against context, which is wasted on placeholder text.

What This Skill Catches

The dangerous citation problems are not wildly fake citations — those are easy to spot. The dangerous ones are:

  • Wrong-context citations: real paper, but the cited claim is not what that paper actually establishes (e.g., citing Self-Refine to support "self-feedback produces correlated errors" — Self-Refine actually argues the opposite).
  • Author hallucinations: anonymous-author placeholders that slipped through, missing co-authors, wrong order.
  • Title drift: arXiv v1 vs v3 with different titles silently merged.
  • Venue confusion: arXiv preprint cited but the official venue is now CVPR/ICML/NeurIPS — using the wrong record.
  • Year mismatch: arXiv 2023 preprint with 2024 conference acceptance, year reported inconsistently.
  • Phantom DOIs: DOI looks real but does not resolve.
  • Self-citation drift: your own prior work cited with year off by one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 503 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 Changed 7f68355f009a
  2. 12d ago First seen · 503 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c3e131c5747d

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citation-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (16,030 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 7,591 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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