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09_citation_mastery from adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/09_citation_mastery@git:20261030.4302e85

Pins git:20261030.4302e85 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: C, 14 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence
Path: skills/09_citation_mastery/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20261030.4302e85, committed Oct 30, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 9, 2026
Size: 12,692 bytes
Repository stars: 9
License: none declared

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

# SKILL 09: Citation Mastery

> **Citations are the currency of academia. Master their strategic deployment to position your work within the scholarly conversation and maximize its impact.**

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## ACTIVATE: CITATION

When you input `ACTIVATE: CITATION`, the system executes a three-component citation optimization protocol: strategic citation framework, quality rules, and format engine.

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## COMPONENT 1: CITATION STRATEGY FRAMEWORK

### The Four Citation Tiers

Not all citations are equal. Each reference in your bibliography serves a specific strategic purpose. Classify every citation into one of four tiers:

#### TIER 1: Foundational Citations (15–20% of references)

**Definition**: Seminal works that established the theoretical, methodological, or empirical foundation upon which your research builds.

**Purpose**: Position your work within the established intellectual tradition; demonstrate mastery of the field's core literature.

**Selection criteria**:
- Works that defined the research area (the "origin story" papers)
- Highly cited foundational papers (typically 500+ citations)
- Papers that introduced key concepts, frameworks, or terminology still in use
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/09_citation_mastery@sha256:c0f22c8e951c5da4

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261030.4302e85, 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.

Badge

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 71 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261030.4302e85 latest	2026-10-30	4302e85	12,692 B	C	view · diff
git:20260918.49ebfd5	2026-09-18	49ebfd5	12,684 B	C	view · diff
git:20260609.deb30f6	2026-06-09	deb30f6	12,684 B	C	view

Audit of the latest version

C 14 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

fail: Frontmatter block present
fail: Frontmatter declares a name
fail: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12692 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

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Source

GitHub

adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence · 9 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gkj3nzq2lnx5bcl3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=adilshamim8/claude-research-excellence/09_citation_mastery
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c0f22c8e951c5da4902a90fc308069663082da8e60dc59415e8f5e551a0afa1d

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