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citation-forensics from wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch/citation-forensics@git:20260810.98a75fc

Pins git:20260810.98a75fc in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch
Path: skills/citation-forensics/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20260810.98a75fc, committed Aug 10, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 27, 2026
Size: 49,541 bytes
Repository stars: 179
License: MIT

Citation-integrity forensics: is every reference real, correctly attributed, and used in a context the cited work actually supports? Catches hallucinated references (no paper at the claimed arXiv id/DOI/venue, fabricated authors/year), metadata drift (wrong year/venue/version), and wrong-context citations (a real paper cited for a claim it never makes — or argues against). A hot zone for machine-generated papers. Decidable at L0 (text + canonical sources). Span-anchored to the evidence ledger…

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

# Citation Forensics — are the references real and honestly used?

Audit citation integrity for: **$ARGUMENTS** (requires `claims.json` from
`/evidence-ledger`; reasons over its `type:"citation"` claims). Emit span-anchored
`citation-forensics.findings.json`. This skill computes **no verdict**.

> 🔒 **Do not wrap this skill in `/loop`, `/schedule`, or `CronCreate`.** It is
> verdict-bearing input — it proposes the citation findings the deterministic
> adjudicator turns into the report. Re-firing it on a wall-clock timer adds no
> signal: its output changes only when the **paper / ledger / bibliography**
> changes, not with the clock, and each run spends real cross-model + lookup budget
> per cited key. Schedule the *external wait that precedes it* — bibliography
> finalized → ledger rebuilt → audit **once**. (Mirrors ARIS's external-cadence
> doctrine.)

> Adapted from ARIS `citation-audit`, re-wired onto this repo's evidence ledger and
> the reviewer≠adjudicator contract, and reframed from "audit + **rewrite** the bib"
> to **"emit ledger-anchored findings, never touch the paper."** Three layers, ported
> verbatim: **existence → metadata → context.** Following the repo's
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch/citation-forensics@sha256:8b14ef660cda4681

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260810.98a75fc, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jun 27, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 11 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260810.98a75fc latest	2026-08-10	98a75fc	49,541 B	A	view · diff
git:20260710.16f7480	2026-07-10	16f7480	49,543 B	A	view · diff
git:20260710.a1a963f	2026-07-10	a1a963f	49,203 B	A	view · diff
git:20260628.b35080d	2026-06-28	b35080d	48,705 B	A	view · diff
git:20260627.25f5501	2026-06-27	25f5501	48,705 B	A	view

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 (49541 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

wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch · 179 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qnskt6kgeinlgyix
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wanshuiyin/anti-autoresearch/citation-forensics
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b14ef660cda468187b0039ba54f0e574a5a870ee277babb4eef28e66c41d131

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