manage-refs SKILL.md skillA
manage-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/manage-refs@git:20261026.5bca7e9Pins git:20261026.5bca7e9 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/manage-refs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 12
- Latest version
- git:20261026.5bca7e9, committed Oct 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 17,277 bytes
- Repository stars
- 366
- License
- MIT
Use when references must be written, rendered or converted. Checks [@key] citation keys, renders the reference list with a journal CSL via pandoc, converts [N] markers, injects Zotero Word field codes and runs manuscript-DOCX cross-reference QC. Read-only auditing is /verify-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
# Manage-Refs Skill Pick the tool from the Decision Tree; do not invent a parallel pipeline. References are never hand-typed: the list is always rendered by pandoc citeproc + journal CSL or by the Zotero Word plugin (CWYW). This skill writes (renders, injects, converts); bibliographic correctness against PubMed/CrossRef stays in `/verify-refs` — one read-only audit, one writer. ## Decision Tree | Situation | Tool | Why | |---|---|---| | Validate `[@bibkey]` ↔ `refs.bib` (UNDEFINED / UNUSED keys) | `scripts/check_citation_keys.py` | Hard build gate, runs in seconds | | Single-author submission lockdown, frozen output | `scripts/render_pandoc.sh -j <journal>` | Reproducible, CI-friendly | | Cascade rejection (e.g., ER → JVIR → CVIR) | `render_pandoc.sh` with new `-j` | CSL swap reformats references in seconds | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aperivue/medsci-skills/manage-refs@sha256:9facce47514f6a8cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.5bca7e9, 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_m7er7kbe2jaktybj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261026.5bca7e9 latest | 2026-10-26 | 5bca7e9 | 17,277 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.0412c5c | 2026-10-26 | 0412c5c | 17,169 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.e4fc54b | 2026-10-03 | e4fc54b | 16,559 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.c8ed96c | 2026-09-30 | c8ed96c | 15,462 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.30387c2 | 2026-09-30 | 30387c2 | 15,421 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.c83ad00 | 2026-09-30 | c83ad00 | 15,788 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.2b7013d | 2026-09-29 | 2b7013d | 20,750 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.47d4801 | 2026-07-29 | 47d4801 | 20,729 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.fff24e4 | 2026-07-28 | fff24e4 | 19,617 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.5244ef5 | 2026-07-28 | 5244ef5 | 19,126 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260728.214054b | 2026-07-28 | 214054b | 19,601 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.501b6a3 | 2026-07-13 | 501b6a3 | 19,110 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 (17277 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 · 366 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m7er7kbe2jaktybj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aperivue/medsci-skills/manage-refs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9facce47514f6a8c5425479055084f0392d24ff268999ce34c99c741c190c3f6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.