audit-references SKILL.md skillA

audit-references from petar-djukic/writing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/audit-references@git:20260812.fc1b88f

Pins git:20260812.fc1b88f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
petar-djukic/writing-skills
Path
.opencode/skills/audit-references/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260812.fc1b88f, committed Aug 12, 2026
Size
6,211 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Verify citations in a paper or document. Reads a markdown document, extracts every [@citation-id] pandoc citation, resolves each against references.yaml (CSL-YAML), fetches the cited papers (arXiv or Google Scholar), reads them, and checks whether the claims made in the citing text are supported by the sources. Produces an audit report with per-citation verdicts. Triggers: audit references, verify citations, check references, citation audit, verify bibliography, check my citations, are my…

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

# Audit references (citation verification)

This skill verifies that the citations in a document actually say what the
author claims they say. It complements `update-references` (which discovers
new papers) by auditing existing citations for correctness.

The output is an audit report: one entry per citation, with a verdict
(supported, unsupported, misattributed, not-found) and the evidence from the
source paper.

## Where things live

- **Document:** The markdown file the user points you at, or the most obvious
  draft in the working directory. Look for `.md` files that contain `[@`
  citations.
- **Database:** `references.yaml` in the working directory (or at the nearest
  ancestor that has one). This is the Citation Style Language (CSL) YAML bibliography that pandoc and
  `update-references` both use.
- **PDFs/papers:** `<db-dir>/pdfs/` and `<db-dir>/papers/` — the same locations
  `update-references` uses. If a paper was already fetched, reuse its markdown.
- **Audit report:** `<db-dir>/audits/<document-stem>-audit.md`, using the
  template in `<skill>/references/audit-template.md`.

## Prerequisites
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add petar-djukic/writing-skills/audit-references@sha256:5c2e253878bfb146

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260812.fc1b88f, 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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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 12, 2026.

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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 (6211 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

petar-djukic/writing-skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q3c6jkaglo7v3qqw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=petar-djukic/writing-skills/audit-references
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c2e253878bfb1466badf4119d5d37f03df25aab56510c45c8b7a26747680fe8

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