citation-grounding SKILL.md skillA
citation-grounding from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/citation-grounding@git:20260728.fe84bd4Pins git:20260728.fe84bd4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/ai-memory-rag/citation-grounding/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260728.fe84bd4, committed Jul 28, 2026
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- 14
- License
- MIT
Tie every claim in a generated answer to the retrieved passage that supports it, so users can verify and unsupported claims are visible. Use when answers are drawn from documents users may need to check.
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 grounding An answer without citations asks the user to trust it. An answer with citations that do not support the claim is worse, because it looks verified. Grounding is the discipline of making the link real and checkable. ## Method 1. **Cite at the claim, not at the end.** A single reference at the bottom of a paragraph tells the reader nothing about which sentence came from where. 2. **Cite what was actually retrieved.** The model must reference the passages it was given, and a citation to a document that was not in context is fabricated regardless of whether the document exists. 3. **Verify citations mechanically.** Check that each cited identifier was in the provided context, which catches the most common fabrication cheaply (see agent-generate-and-verify). 4. **Make the citation openable.** Deep link to the passage with enough location detail for the user to find it in the source (see chunking-strategies). 5. **Mark unsupported statements plainly.** Where the model adds reasoning beyond the sources, that should be visibly distinct from what the documents state. 6. **Prefer refusal to unsourced assertion.** When the context does not …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/citation-grounding@sha256:0f6b681704dac2d7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fe84bd4, 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 Jul 28, 2026.
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ueeyjjgar6bue2gw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/citation-grounding GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0f6b681704dac2d723a462c3ff157002f1b358d62e3b71d97499ea5f98225839
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.
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