citation-audit

citation-audit is a skill for Claude Code from wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep. It costs 86 tokens per session (7,858 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 Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Before each reviewer slot**, follow [Selectable Reviewers](../shared-references/reviewer-backends.md):.

Part of the aris plugin — 87 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

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 · 18,241 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.

Or install aris, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 87 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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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Per session 86 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,858 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 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 14 Sept 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 $0.07858
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.03143
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01572
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00786

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8b6264f06c8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 9d 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 · 516 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 516 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Citation Audit

Before each reviewer slot, follow Selectable Reviewers: resolve invocation → .aris/reviewer.json → Claude Code default (Codex MCP) with reviewer_route.py through the canonical helper resolver, preserving this slot's tier, fresh contexts, source/image inputs and deterministic gates. Codex examples/pins below apply only to backend=codex; other routes use their own first-call/reply contract. Save the route and actual returned identity; unavailable selections are REVIEW_UNAVAILABLE. Classify acceptance from actual families/completion/scope. Forward invocation reviewer/model/effort overrides to reviewer-bearing children. Generation workers are unchanged.

🔒 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 516 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. 9d ago Changed · +13 lines 8b6264f06c8b
  2. 1mo ago Changed 7f68355f009a
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 503 lines · 86 tokens per session scan A c3e131c5747d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citation-audit is a skill published in the GitHub repository wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep (18,241 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 86 tokens to every session and 7,858 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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