citation-tracker SKILL.md skillA
citation-tracker from skillmedev/academic-researcher is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/academic-researcher/citation-tracker@git:20261005.657a54cPins git:20261005.657a54c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/academic-researcher
- Path
skills/citation-tracker/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261005.657a54c, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
- Size
- 6,440 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Verifies that every citation is real, unretracted, and complete, rates source quality by evidence tier, and formats reference lists precisely in APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE. Use when someone asks "check my references", "format this bibliography in APA", "are these citations real", or "convert my reference list to IEEE". Do NOT use for checking whether the claims in the text are true - use fact-checker or claims-verifier instead. Do NOT use for writing the review itself - use literature-review…
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 Tracker Ensure every citation is accurate, complete, and correctly formatted for the requested style. Accuracy comes before formatting - a beautifully formatted wrong citation is still wrong, and the costly failure this skill prevents is the fabricated or unverifiable reference that survives to publication and detonates the author's credibility on contact with one curious reader. ## Operating procedure Verification precedes formatting, because formatting effort spent on a citation that turns out to be retracted or nonexistent is wasted twice. ### Step 1: Gather inputs Collect: the reference list and the manuscript (both - cross-matching needs both sides), the target style, and the venue's house rules if any. If the style is unstated, ask: APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago (notes-bibliography or author-date), or IEEE. Never mix styles in one document, and for Chicago, pin down which variant before touching anything. ### Step 2: Inventory the required elements …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/academic-researcher/citation-tracker@sha256:5b9bbf694473d107The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.657a54c, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261005.657a54c latest | 2026-10-05 | 657a54c | 6,440 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.afb4be5 | 2026-07-05 | afb4be5 | 6,402 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260704.0321639 | 2026-07-04 | 0321639 | 6,444 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260619.8a1ecd4 | 2026-06-19 | 8a1ecd4 | 2,399 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 (6440 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
skillmedev/academic-researcher · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xxmzb7jzn7h4ggd3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/academic-researcher/citation-tracker GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5b9bbf694473d107b3c606abd65e217d011e6149e91d58fddae464bb21a03230
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