verify-refs SKILL.md skillA
verify-refs from aperivue/medsci-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/verify-refs@git:20261002.2ba4c81Pins git:20261002.2ba4c81 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aperivue/medsci-skills
- Path
skills/verify-refs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261002.2ba4c81, committed Oct 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 10, 2026
- Size
- 12,586 bytes
- Repository stars
- 346
- License
- MIT
Use when checking whether a manuscript's references are real. Audits each citation against PubMed and CrossRef, flags fabricated or mismatched entries and writes qc/reference_audit.json. Audit-only; never edits references or refs.bib. Citation-key checks are /manage-refs.
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
# Verify References (Audit-Only) Audit an existing manuscript or bibliography for fabricated or mismatched references. This skill **never writes** to `references/` or `manuscript/_src/refs.bib`: corrections flow through `/lit-sync` (Zotero → Better BibTeX → `refs.bib`), and `/manage-project`'s `scripts/validate_project_contract.py` flags any `references/*` file written here as drift. It does not discover literature (`/search-lit`), and it never replaces a missing or bad citation with a plausible alternative — replacements go through `/search-lit` or the user. ## Inputs 1. Manuscript or bibliography: `.md`, `.docx`, `.bib`, `.txt`, or `.tsv`. 2. Optional project root. Default: current working directory. 3. Optional flags: `--offline` (extract and classify without API calls), `--timeout N` (HTTP timeout seconds), `--strict`, `--no-openalex`. For markdown manuscripts with pandoc `[@bibkey]` citations, run a citation-key check first (`/manage-refs`'s `check_citation_keys.py`, or your reference manager's). It catches mis-keyed cites; `verify_refs.py` catches fabricated metadata. ## Deterministic Script Run the bundled script rather than verifying citations by memory: ```bash …
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How to install
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/verify-refs@sha256:282664d1cfed36b0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261002.2ba4c81, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jun 10, 2026 and Oct 2, 2026, about one every 13 days.
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| git:20261002.2ba4c81 latest | 2026-10-02 | 2ba4c81 | 12,586 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.c8ed96c | 2026-09-30 | c8ed96c | 12,045 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.30387c2 | 2026-09-30 | 30387c2 | 10,264 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.913abeb | 2026-09-30 | 913abeb | 10,218 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.640e778 | 2026-09-29 | 640e778 | 15,496 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.83a281d | 2026-09-06 | 83a281d | 15,318 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260905.4456e18 | 2026-09-05 | 4456e18 | 13,883 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260724.2bf1b2c | 2026-07-24 | 2bf1b2c | 14,260 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260618.66c9072 | 2026-06-18 | 66c9072 | 11,846 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260610.d3e13af | 2026-06-10 | d3e13af | 10,575 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 (12586 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
aperivue/medsci-skills · 346 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_adce4oykpmz6x5v5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aperivue/medsci-skills/verify-refs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/282664d1cfed36b0ffb185f44f93634e9e66cf1c58921c209f87479a27b43527
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