citeguard-verify

citeguard-verify is a skill for Codex from xiaweiyi713/citeguard. It costs 92 tokens per session (1,645 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A citation-checking skill for scientific and technical writing that compares references, identifiers, and claims with scholarly sources. It can check one citation, many citations, or whether a citation supports a specific claim.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to verify individual references, audit a bibliography, or test the evidence behind a claim, while reporting when support checks are running in a reduced fallback mode.
Why use it?
It helps detect made-up papers, incorrect bibliographic details, invalid DOI or arXiv identifiers, and claims that their cited sources do not support.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to verify individual references, audit a bibliography, or test the evidence behind a claim, while reporting when support checks are running in a reduced fallback mode.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xiaweiyi713/citeguard/citeguard-verify
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 xiaweiyi713/citeguard --skill citeguard-verify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaweiyi713/citeguard

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,645 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 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 $0.00092 $0.01645
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00822
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00329
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00164

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9a5db38b9b48, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

citeguard-verify 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/citeguard-verify/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verify citations with CiteGuard

Use the CiteGuard MCP tools as the source of verification results. Never infer that a paper exists or supports a claim from memory alone.

Start safely

  1. Call citeguard_status_tool once before the first check in a task.
  2. Continue existence and metadata checks when deep models are unavailable.
  3. If support_models.engine=heuristic_fallback, label claim-support results as degraded and suggest python -m pip install "citationguard[models]" followed by citeguard models warmup.
  4. If source health or the cache is misconfigured, report the structured error and recovery action before interpreting results.
  5. Run check_sources=true only for setup or outage diagnosis, not before every citation.

If the MCP server or skill is missing, suggest:

python -m pip install citationguard
citeguard skill install --client codex

The MCP stdio command is citeguard-mcp. Source checkouts may use python -m pip install -e ..

Choose the narrowest tool

Request Tool
One reference or identifier verify_citation_tool
Many references audit_citations_tool
One claim and one citation check_claim_support_tool
One claim and several citations check_claim_support_set_tool
Many claim/citation rows audit_claim_support_tool
Possible contrary literature search_counterevidence_tool

Prefer DOI or arXiv identifiers, then structured metadata, then raw_text. Preserve input order and original indexes in every batch report. Batches are limited to 100 rows; split larger inputs into stable, numbered chunks. Use max_workers from 1 to 16 when latency matters. Read batch_execution as a completion snapshot; MCP does not stream intermediate progress.

Read references/tool-payloads.md for exact call shapes. Read references/result-policy.md before handling outages, ambiguity, claim support, or filtered batch results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 160 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A 9a5db38b9b48

Subscribe to this mod's changes

citeguard-verify is a skill published in the GitHub repository xiaweiyi713/citeguard (1 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,645 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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