citation-audit SKILL.md skillA
citation-audit from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- MIT
Verify that every citation in a manuscript is real, correctly attributed, and accurately described. Detects ghost papers, wrong arXiv IDs, inverted claims, and dead links by fetching each cited work. Optional fix mode applies bib metadata corrections and surfaces prose rewrites for claim errors. Triggers on: "check my citations", "verify references", "citation audit", "are my references real", "check bib", "reference check", "bib audit", "citation verification". Companion to manuscript-review…
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What the file says
# Citation Audit Skill
## Purpose
Verify every citation in a manuscript against its actual source. LLMs
hallucinate citations, invent arXiv IDs, misattribute findings, and confuse
authors. This skill catches all of that by fetching and reading each cited
work.
## Why This Exists
LLMs are unreliable with citations in three distinct ways:
1. **Ghost papers** — The paper does not exist. Title, authors, or venue are
fabricated.
2. **Wrong metadata** — The paper exists but the bib entry has the wrong arXiv
ID, wrong authors, wrong year, or wrong venue.
3. **Inverted claims** — The paper exists and the bib is correct, but the
manuscript mischaracterizes what the paper says.
All three are invisible to structural audits (cross-reference checks,
compilation tests). They require reading the actual cited work.
## Inputs
- The manuscript `.tex` file(s)
- The `.bib` file
- Web access (to fetch papers from arXiv, conference sites, URLs)
## Execution
### Phase 1: Extract citation contexts
For each `\citep{}`, `\citet{}`, `\cite{}` in the manuscript:
1. Record the bib key
2. Record the surrounding sentence or paragraph (the **claim context**)
3. Classify the claim type:
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How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/citation-audit@sha256:8e29d32cfb89d3d1The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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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Source
mathews-tom/armory · 334 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ob6j5l32h3hbh2jt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/citation-audit GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8e29d32cfb89d3d1c69300d89df1f9549d5c72c7ef72cdb08821e90e64836b07
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