citation-fixer SKILL.md skillA

citation-fixer from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/citation-fixer@v1.1.0

Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
garrytan/gbrain
Path
skills/citation-fixer/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
4
Latest version
v1.1.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
First version recorded
Apr 15, 2026
Size
6,622 bytes
Repository stars
31,587
License
MIT

Audit and fix citation formatting across brain pages. Ensures every fact has an inline [Source: ...] citation matching the standard format. Extended in v0.25.1: scans for broken tweet/post references that lack actual URLs and resolves them via the host's X / Twitter API integration.

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 Fixer Skill

> **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for
> the canonical citation format every fix should match.
>
> **Output rule:** all links MUST be deterministic (built from API data,
> not composed by LLM). See [_output-rules.md](../_output-rules.md).

## Contract

This skill guarantees:

- Every brain page is scanned for citation compliance.
- Missing citations are flagged with specific location.
- Malformed citations are fixed to match the standard format.
- **(v0.25.1)** Tweet / post references without URLs are resolved via
  X API and patched with deterministic `https://x.com/<handle>/status/<id>`
  links.
- Results reported with counts (scanned, fixed, remaining).

## Phases

1. **Scan pages.** List pages and read each one, checking for inline
   `[Source: ...]` citations.
2. **Identify issues:**
   - Facts without any citation
   - Citations missing date
   - Citations missing source type
   - Citations with wrong format
   - **(v0.25.1)** Tweet references without `x.com` URLs
3. **Fix format issues.** Rewrite malformed citations to match
   `conventions/quality.md`.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/citation-fixer@sha256:22dde60db9d5df0a

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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 4 versions of this file, between Apr 15, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 58 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.1.0 latest2026-10-07 590bb9a 6,622 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-10-04 739e5cc 6,621 BA view · diff
v1.1.02026-05-02 c2ae4db 5,982 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-04-15 e5a9f01 1,519 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6622 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

GitHub

garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bef2biuzqfhrzpgm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/citation-fixer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/22dde60db9d5df0a859e131e7e2d7347d5205a3d20ea1ed0d9c4eb373fb11cc9

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