citation-faithfulness
Installation
SKILL.md
Citation Faithfulness Checker
Verify whether the in-text citations in a paper PDF are faithful to the original sources. For each place the paper says "according to [X], …" or "[X] reports …", this skill retrieves what X actually says and judges whether the paper's claim is genuinely supported — catching misrepresentation, reversed conclusions, wrong attribution, mismatched numbers, and claims the source never made.
This is agent-driven: there is no upload service and no bundled script. Claude reads the PDF, retrieves sources with its own web tools, and applies the judging rubric itself. Invoke via natural language or /citation-faithfulness.
What This Skill Does vs. Does Not
This skill (citation-faithfulness) |
pdf-citation-verifier |
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| Question | Does the cited source actually support the claim? | Does the reference exist at all? |
| Catches | Distortion, reversed meaning, wrong numbers, over-claiming | Ghost references, fabricated DOIs |
| Method | Read PDF + web-retrieve source + agent judges | Upload PDF to AMiner service |
| Key | none required | needs AMINER_API_KEY |
If the user actually wants existence/hallucination checking, stop and route them to pdf-citation-verifier.