proof-derivation-forensics

proof-derivation-forensics is a skill for Claude Code from wenhaochai/claude-plugins. It costs 84 tokens per session (7,754 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of proof-derivation-forensics, MIT.

A review tool for checking whether someone else's written mathematical proof or derivation actually supports its stated theorem. It looks for skipped obligations, circular reasoning, invalid steps, changed symbol meanings, and unstated assumptions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit research proofs and mathematical derivations, with findings tied to specific passages.
Why use it?
It helps reveal substantive flaws that can make a theorem unsupported, even when the writing looks plausible. The findings are evidence for a later verdict rather than the verdict itself.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the anti-autoresearch plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit research proofs and mathematical derivations, with findings tied to specific passages.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add wenhaochai/claude-plugins
Claude Code
/plugin install anti-autoresearch

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install anti-autoresearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 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.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,754 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00084 $0.07754
Opus 5.5 $0.00034 $0.03102
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00017 $0.01551
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00775

Measured 24d ago against content hash 6253ef9ba1fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

proof-derivation-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 24d 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

This is a copy

98% identical to proof-derivation-forensics — 392 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

anti-autoresearch/skills/proof-derivation-forensics/SKILL.md · 470 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 470 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Proof & Derivation Forensics — does the written proof hold?

Audit family G (proof & derivation integrity) for: $ARGUMENTS (requires claims.json from /evidence-ledger). A fresh cross-model reviewer reads each theorem/proof and proposes span-anchored findings; this skill writes proof-derivation-forensics.findings.json. The deterministic adjudicator — not this skill — computes the verdict.

🔒 Run once per input change; never wrap in /loop, /schedule or CronCreate (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/support/references/run-cadence.md). Re-run only when the paper or the ledger changes.

Broken math is the single most-cited "obviously machine-written" tell in real reviews ("过不去的步骤用文字糊弄", "车轱辘话复述当证明", "关键公式符号用反"). Unlike the surface signals of family F, family-G flaws are substantive and can be critical: a theorem whose proof is circular, skips a load-bearing obligation, or takes an invalid step does not support its claim. And — crucially — proof validity is decidable from the written proof: we never need the code or results, so family G is verdict-bearing at L1 (the LaTeX source) and can still reach HARD_FLAGS with no repo — but needs that source, because PDF-extracted math is unreliable; at an L0 (PDF-only) run a family-G flaw surfaces as info only. Adapted from ARIS proof-checker (per-obligation ledger + 20-category taxonomy + counterexample red team) and formula-derivation (identity/proposition/approximation/interpretation step typing), reframed from "fix my own proof" to "audit a third party's proof, detect-only." There is no fixing here and no authorship verdict — only "the step shown does not hold," with the exact line quoted.

Read reference/rationale.md for why family G exists, an example of each flaw, and the honest recall bound (why a pure-symbol step covered by no ledger claim stays at info).

Core principle

Ledger-anchored, span-verified, decide-from-the-written-proof, reviewer≠adjudicator. There is no deterministic tool for family G (no arithmetic backbone like consistency-audit's check_numeric_consistency.py) — proof validity is a semantic judgment. So this skill runs exactly one substantive pass:

Read the full file on GitHub · 470 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 24d ago Changed · -347 lines 6253ef9ba1fa
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -138 tokens per session 3da7fdacf66d
  3. 1mo ago Changed 2c43d328a118
  4. 1mo ago Changed 185ebf338133
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 817 lines · 222 tokens per session scan A 922998e6dbd8

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proof-derivation-forensics is a skill published in the GitHub repository wenhaochai/claude-plugins (18 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 7,754 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to proof-derivation-forensics, differing in 392 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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