academic-verify SKILL.md skillA
academic-verify from garrytan/gbrain is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/academic-verify@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- garrytan/gbrain
- Path
plugin/skills/academic-verify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Oct 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 16, 2026
- Size
- 10,378 bytes
- Repository stars
- 31,587
- License
- MIT
Verify a research claim or academic citation by tracing it through publication → methodology → raw data → independent replication. Routes through perplexity-research for the actual web lookup, then formats results as a citation-checked brain page. Use when a book/article/conversation cites a study and you want to confirm the claim is real, replicated, and accurately characterized.
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
# academic-verify — Trace Claims to Source Data > **Convention:** see [conventions/quality.md](../conventions/quality.md) for > citation rules; every verdict cites the source data, not just the > author's claim about the source data. > > **Convention:** see [conventions/brain-first.md](../conventions/brain-first.md) > for the lookup chain. This skill enforces brain-first by checking > existing brain pages before issuing a fresh web search. ## What this is A claim-verification flow for academic / research statements. When a book, article, or speaker cites a study or quotes a number, this skill traces the claim through: ``` claim → publication → methodology section → raw data source → independent verification ``` At each step, it answers: - **Where does this number come from?** (Self-generated? Survey? Government data?) - **What's the baseline?** (Reduction from what? Over what time period?) - **Is the raw data available?** (Public? Proprietary? "Available on request"?) - **Has anyone independently verified it?** (Replication study? Government audit?) - **Are there confounding factors?** (Other interventions, policy changes, COVID, sampling bias?) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add garrytan/gbrain/academic-verify@sha256:0a73923e78814309The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cmlxtrdn6memdfyw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 16, 2026 and Oct 7, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-10-07 | 590bb9a | 10,378 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-05 | 6509f9b | 10,377 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-10-04 | 739e5cc | 10,216 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-08-16 | df4feda | 9,379 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 (10378 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
garrytan/gbrain · 31,587 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cmlxtrdn6memdfyw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=garrytan/gbrain/academic-verify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a73923e788143098c488ce869c50b1cc9d5b8a2e99ec654039a3ef6d9099d23
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