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Citation Validator

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liangdabiao·vlatest·utilities

This tool verifies citations for accuracy and format consistency, ensuring your work's credibility and saving valuable research time.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add liangdabiao/claude-code-stock-deep-research-agent --skill citation-validator -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

liangdabiao

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Install target

Live repository

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Automated safety checks

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This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

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    Scanned liangdabiao/claude-code-stock-deep-research-agent at 3299e26cff.

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Commit
3299e26cff
Manifest
1.claude/skills/citation-validator/SKILL.md
Scanned
3 files, 1,084 lines
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About this skill

The citation-validator skill ensures the accuracy and credibility of information generated by AI agents by cross-referencing claims against trusted sources. It automatically detects hallucinated references and validates citations to maintain high standards for research integrity.

When to use it

  • Verifying factual claims in long-form reports or academic summaries before publication.
  • Ensuring code-generated documentation links to real, existing libraries or papers.
  • Auditing deep research outputs to confirm sources are not fabricated.
  • Validating legal or financial data points where source accuracy is critical.

Key capabilities

  • Cross-references generated content against a database of trusted external sources.
  • Identifies and flags hallucinated citations or broken links.
  • Validates the existence and relevance of referenced materials in real-time.

Example prompts

  • "Run a citation check on this research summary to identify any fake sources."
  • "Validate all references in the generated code documentation against official library repositories."
  • "Audit this deep research report for hallucinated citations before I share it with stakeholders."

Tips & gotchas

Ensure your AI agent has access to the internet or a verified source database, as validation requires external data comparison. This skill is most effective when used in workflows involving high-stakes information where hallucinations could lead to significant errors.