Citation Audit

🔒 Do not wrap this skill in /loop, /schedule, or CronCreate. It is verdict-bearing — it judges bibliographic correctness. Re-running that verdict on a timer adds no new signal (it changes only when the bibliography changes). Schedule the external wait that precedes it — bibliography finalized → then audit once. See shared-references/external-cadence.md.

Verify every \cite{...} in a paper against three independent layers:

1. Existence — the cited paper actually exists at the claimed arXiv ID / DOI / venue.
2. Metadata correctness — author names, year, venue, and title match canonical sources (DBLP, arXiv, ACL Anthology, Nature, OpenReview, etc.).
3. Context appropriateness — the cited paper actually supports the claim it is being used to support in the manuscript.

This skill is the fourth layer of \aris{}'s evidence-and-claim assurance, complementing experiment-audit (code), result-to-claim (science verdict), and paper-claim-audit (numerical claims). Together they form a bottom-up integrity stack from raw evaluation code to manuscript bibliography.

When to Use This Skill