Citation Audit Skill

Purpose

Verify every citation in a manuscript against its actual source. LLMs hallucinate citations, invent arXiv IDs, misattribute findings, and confuse authors. This skill catches all of that by fetching and reading each cited work.

Why This Exists

LLMs are unreliable with citations in three distinct ways:

1. Ghost papers — The paper does not exist. Title, authors, or venue are fabricated.
2. Wrong metadata — The paper exists but the bib entry has the wrong arXiv ID, wrong authors, wrong year, or wrong venue.
3. Inverted claims — The paper exists and the bib is correct, but the manuscript mischaracterizes what the paper says.