verifying-bibliography SKILL.md skillA
verifying-bibliography from chgagne/claude-skills-research is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/verifying-bibliography@git:20261009.18f8d6dPins git:20261009.18f8d6d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chgagne/claude-skills-research
- Path
verifying-bibliography/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261009.18f8d6d, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 12, 2026
- Size
- 10,884 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
Use when checking a .bib or reference list for incorrect or fabricated entries — wrong titles, invented co-authors, wrong DOI/volume/pages, preprints cited instead of the published venue, or references that do not exist. Triggers on "verify this bibliography", "check my references", "are these citations real", a refs.bib alongside a paper, or suspicion that a bibliography was LLM-generated.
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
# Verifying Bibliography
## Overview
**Resolve a stable identifier first, then compare the record back against the `.bib`.**
Everything else in this skill follows from that one inversion.
The obvious design — take the title in the `.bib`, search for it, fuzzy-match the authors —
cannot detect the single most important defect. A fabricated title that accurately describes
the right paper retrieves that paper and passes. Searching *by* the thing you are trying to
verify is circular.
Two measured examples, both cleared by a title-search tool and both caught by reverse lookup:
- `moritz2019draco` carried the title *"Draco: An Approach to Generating Visualizations with
a Computational Design Process"*. Its DOI is correct and resolves to *"Formalizing
Visualization Design Knowledge as Constraints: Actionable and Extensible Models in Draco"*.
- `wongsuphasawat2016voyager` carried DOI `10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467251`, which resolves to
*"High-Quality Ultra-Compact Grid Layout of Grouped Networks"* — a different paper by six
different authors.
## Run it
```sh
python3 ~/.claude/skills/verifying-bibliography/assets/run-bibcheck.py \
refs.bib --bbl main.bbl --out review-assets/
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chgagne/claude-skills-research/verifying-bibliography@sha256:77df7a092744db56The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.18f8d6d, 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_xtz2bf53433g2q77)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 12, 2026 and Oct 9, 2026, about one every 58 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261009.18f8d6d latest | 2026-10-09 | 18f8d6d | 10,884 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.4c0299b | 2026-08-12 | 4c0299b | 9,917 B | A | view |
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 (10884 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
chgagne/claude-skills-research · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xtz2bf53433g2q77 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chgagne/claude-skills-research/verifying-bibliography GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77df7a092744db561bc82c063b3c429272f51e7140f3a89321f5a7512b1b8902
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