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citation-verification

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a research skill usually looks things up on the internet.

By KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills (GitHub) · research · 126 stars · scanned at commit 802bbea

Verify that every reference in a manuscript really exists and matches its metadata, catching hallucinated, corrupted or mismatched citations before submission. Use when checking a .bib file or reference list, after an AI assistant drafted citations, when a DOI may point to the wrong paper, when adding missing DOIs, or before camera-ready. Queries Crossref, OpenAlex and arXiv; zero dependencies.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'citation-verification' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'citation-verification' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named citation-verification already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '802bbea44e551abac24d6856f83fc55149bbdba3' -- 'skills/citation-verification' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/citation-verification' ~/.agents/skills/'citation-verification' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'citation-verification' ~/.claude/skills/'citation-verification' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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