auditing-citations SKILL.md skillA

auditing-citations from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/auditing-citations@v2.1.0

Pins v2.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers
Path
skills/auditing-citations/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
v2.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 19, 2026
Size
12,228 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Use when citations, quotations, page numbers, bibliography entries, or source-supported claims must be checked for existence, metadata accuracy, textual fidelity, and claim–source fit.

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

# Auditing Citations

## Purpose

Audit the evidentiary chain between a manuscript and its sources. This skill does not beautify a bibliography or infer missing publication details. It creates a traceable record showing what was checked, against which source, with what result, and what remains unresolved.

Citation accuracy has at least two distinct dimensions. **Bibliographic verification** asks whether the cited object exists and whether author, title, date, edition, journal, volume, issue, pages, DOI, archival identifier, and translator information are accurate. **Claim–source verification** asks whether the cited passage actually supports the sentence, interpretation, historical statement, or quotation to which it is attached. A record can pass the first test and fail the second.

## Contract

**Accepts** a manuscript, notes, bibliography, citation export, quotation list, source files, authoritative catalogue records, or a prior `CitationRecord` set.

**Requires** the text containing the citations and enough source access to distinguish checked items from inaccessible ones. Direct quotations require the exact edition or a clearly identified equivalent edition.
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/auditing-citations@sha256:cab074dc57242277

The line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1.0, 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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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 19, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 29 days.

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v2.1.0 latest2026-09-15 1bc2e1c 12,228 BA view · diff
v2.0.02026-08-21 5d72da4 12,228 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-07-19 262e1c6 10,535 BA 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 (12228 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

icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zutj54ophuortweb
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/auditing-citations
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cab074dc57242277e6d887b442503458d3d351e5a4283f9a1463e5fd414b3624

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