notebooklm-brief-verifier

notebooklm-brief-verifier is a skill for Claude Code from WenyuChiou/research-hub. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,249 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker for briefs made by NotebookLM, an AI research tool that creates summaries from uploaded sources.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a NotebookLM brief before sharing it with an advisor or using it in research.
Why use it?
It finds sources the brief missed, claims unsupported by the source bundle, contradictions, and conclusions that go beyond the evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the research-workspace plugin — 13 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a NotebookLM brief before sharing it with an advisor or using it in research.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wenyuchiou/research-hub/notebooklm-brief-verifier
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 WenyuChiou/research-hub --skill notebooklm-brief-verifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WenyuChiou/research-hub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install research-workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,249 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 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 $0.00070 $0.01249
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00624
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00125

Measured 11d ago against content hash 80c71c94e3e5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebooklm-brief-verifier 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 11d 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/notebooklm-brief-verifier/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

notebooklm-brief-verifier

NotebookLM is great at producing readable briefs, but it can:

  • Skip a source that was in the bundle (silently — no error).
  • Make claims the source bundle doesn't actually support.
  • Contradict claims across sources without flagging the conflict.
  • Generalize beyond the data ("studies show...") when one paper says something narrow.

This skill verifies a downloaded brief against the actual source bundle that research-hub uploaded, so the user can trust (or distrust) the brief before sharing or citing.

When to use

Trigger phrases:

  • "Check this NotebookLM brief against the source bundle."
  • "Verify whether NotebookLM missed or hallucinated anything important."
  • "Compare downloaded NotebookLM notes to the cluster papers."
  • "Audit this brief before I send it to my advisor."

Not for:

  • Generating the brief in the first place — that's research-hub notebooklm generate.
  • Comparing papers to each other — literature-triage-matrix.
  • Manuscript-level claim audit — academic-writing-skills.

Inputs

In priority order:

  1. research-hub-managed mode (default). When the brief was generated via research-hub notebooklm generate + download:

    • Brief: .research_hub/artifacts/<cluster>/brief-*.txt
    • Bundle manifest: .research_hub/bundles/<cluster>/manifest.json — list of which source files were uploaded.
    • Cluster Obsidian notes under raw/<cluster>/*.md — for spot-checking specific claims.
    • Source PDFs under pdfs/<cluster>/ — last-resort spot-check only; cap at 3 per session.
  2. Manual fallback mode (new in v0.68.x). When the user generated the brief themselves on notebooklm.google.com — direct upload, web UI, copy-paste — research-hub never saw the bundle. Accept either CLI flags or a paste-into-chat:

    • --brief <path-to-brief.{md,txt,pdf}> — the downloaded brief file (any path, not just .research_hub/artifacts/).
    • --sources <path-to-source-list.{yml,md,json}> — a plain list of the source titles + DOIs / URLs the user uploaded to NLM.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 11d ago First seen · 123 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 80c71c94e3e5

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notebooklm-brief-verifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository WenyuChiou/research-hub (54 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,249 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 2026-08-30.

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