bibref-verify SKILL.md skillA
bibref-verify from yzhao062/agent-config is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add yzhao062/agent-config/bibref-verify@git:20260518.d0e0e14Pins git:20260518.d0e0e14 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- yzhao062/agent-config
- Path
skills/bibref-verify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260518.d0e0e14, committed May 18, 2026
- Size
- 13,907 bytes
- Repository stars
- 16
- License
- none declared
Use when auditing a paper's existing .bib for hallucinated citations or stale metadata before submission, especially when bib entries came from co-authors or automated tools and may include fabricated authors, future arXiv IDs, or preprints already published in peer-reviewed venues. Companion to bibref-filler (which adds new citations); this skill audits existing ones.
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
# bibref-verify ## Overview Audits an existing `.bib` for hallucinated citations and stale metadata. Output: a single `REFERENCE-CHECK.md` with audit findings and ready-to-paste BibTeX fixes. **Read-only on the `.bib` file**; the user applies fixes manually. Distinct scope from `bibref-filler` (a separate shared skill, typically bootstrapped to `.agent-config/repo/skills/` rather than tracked in the project repo): `bibref-filler` adds new citations to prose during drafting; `bibref-verify` audits existing entries before submission. The two skills do not overlap. ## When to Use - Paper or proposal is approaching submission for a venue that desk-rejects on hallucinated citations (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, NSF, NIH, etc.) - The `.bib` contains entries the user did not personally add (co-author contributions, automated bib generators, AI assistants) - Suspected failure modes: arXiv IDs with future `YYMM`, BibTeX keys that look like raw arXiv IDs, papers cited as `arxiv preprint` that may have been published since - The user wants a third-party verification trail for reviewer scrutiny …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add yzhao062/agent-config/bibref-verify@sha256:75594fd1d90dabd5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260518.d0e0e14, 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_q5fbjkagezkoqfye)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 18, 2026.
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 (13907 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
yzhao062/agent-config · 16 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q5fbjkagezkoqfye GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yzhao062/agent-config/bibref-verify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/75594fd1d90dabd5cdaed7f743ce18fb45dad73dd21c87138d858015b0a0b774
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