check-citations SKILL.md skillA
check-citations from fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit/check-citations@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit
- Path
academic-toolkit/skills/check-citations/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Sep 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 23, 2026
- Size
- 5,108 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Verifies citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex; detects AI-hallucinated references. Use before submission.
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
# check-citations Verify academic citations against CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Detects AI-hallucinated references, chimeric citations (real title + wrong authors), and suspicious patterns before submission. ## When to Use - After writing or editing a `.bib` file with AI assistance - Before submitting a paper, thesis, or report - When reviewing AI-generated literature sections - As a CI/CD check in LaTeX manuscript pipelines - When auditing existing bibliographies for dead or fabricated references ## Background - 6-55% of AI-generated citations are fabricated (varies by model/domain) - 100+ hallucinated references found in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers - Universities increasingly treat fake citations as academic misconduct - Three hallucination types: **fully fabricated**, **chimeric** (real title + wrong authors), **modified real** (slightly altered metadata) ## Usage ### Quick Check (Single File) ```bash python scripts/citation_checker.py references.bib ``` ### Check All `.bib` Files in a Directory ```bash python scripts/citation_checker.py path/to/report/ ``` ### JSON Output (CI/CD Pipelines) ```bash …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit/check-citations@sha256:8c4d524162958965The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 2 versions of this file, between Sep 23, 2026 and Sep 27, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-09-27 | a059f3a | 5,108 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-23 | 2013b81 | 5,101 B | A | view |
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Source
fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit · 12 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yldpcpexzwagixmj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fourteen1416/academic-agent-toolkit/check-citations GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8c4d524162958965a8d65f31c6f6b2a570b18acc25033218e9ba49fc13a5bba6
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