citation-check SKILL.md skillA
citation-check from scdenney/open-science-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/citation-check@git:20261019.3e1eabePins git:20261019.3e1eabe in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- scdenney/open-science-skills
- Path
plugin/skills/citation-check/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261019.3e1eabe, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 6, 2026
- Size
- 12,457 bytes
- Repository stars
- 69
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Audits a manuscript's citations for fabricated or nonexistent sources, DOIs that resolve to a different work, mismatches between in-text citations and the reference list, APA 7 or journal style, and whether each source supports the claim it is attached to. Checks entries against Crossref, OpenAlex, and DataCite and labels anything it could not verify NOT CHECKED. Use to check citations, references, a .bib file, or DOIs, or when a source may be AI-invented. Figures and tables go to…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Citation Integrity Auditor Checks that every cited work exists, that its identifier points to that work, that the text and the reference list agree, and that each source can bear the claim attached to it. Verification comes from bibliographic indexes, not from model memory: a lookup that was not run is reported as `NOT CHECKED`, never filled in by plausibility. Adapted for social science from the source-verification workflow in Cheng-I Wu's *Academic Research Skills for Claude Code* (CC BY-NC 4.0), in particular its separation of formatting, existence, DOI, and uncertainty checks. Credit ARS when reusing this structure elsewhere, and keep its prose out of reports. ## Instructions ### 1. Orient before checking Identify the inputs and constraints: - Manuscript source: LaTeX, Markdown, Word export, PDF text, or pasted prose. - Bibliography source: `.bib`, CSL JSON, Zotero export, reference section, footnotes, or mixed. - Target style: default to APA 7 unless the user names a journal or style. - Scope: whole manuscript, one section, bibliography only, or DOI-only pass. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add scdenney/open-science-skills/citation-check@sha256:fd5acaaafb1ea7f6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.3e1eabe, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_66scjl2y5q4ulfdr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between May 6, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261019.3e1eabe latest | 2026-10-19 | 3e1eabe | 12,457 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261008.697c89f | 2026-10-08 | 697c89f | 12,488 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.699726d | 2026-09-30 | 699726d | 13,650 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.d88ee2d | 2026-09-17 | d88ee2d | 11,638 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.08bf795 | 2026-09-09 | 08bf795 | 11,607 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260902.da5a263 | 2026-09-02 | da5a263 | 11,701 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260614.ca276ac | 2026-06-14 | ca276ac | 11,117 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260509.985a114 | 2026-05-09 | 985a114 | 6,624 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260506.df870bc | 2026-05-06 | df870bc | 7,178 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12457 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
scdenney/open-science-skills · 69 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_66scjl2y5q4ulfdr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=scdenney/open-science-skills/citation-check GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fd5acaaafb1ea7f61d2183277ee9a790ceb58f2e4f06aadee7eef5e53bcdd770
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