citation-verify — independently scanned and version-tracked by SaferSkills.
SaferSkills independently audited citation-verify (Agent Skill) and scored it 96/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 1 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
Findings & checks · 1 flagged
The text {match} tells the agent to skip the normal "ask the user first" gate. Used adversarially it removes the human-in-the-loop check before destructive or sensitive actions, turning a normally-gated agent into a fire-and-forget executor.
Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
Verify that every citation in a bibliography or manuscript references a real, published work with correct metadata.
.bib filesrigorous cite-check path/to/references.bibrigorous cite-check path/to/paper.tex --format latex
rigorous cite-check path/to/paper.md --format markdownrigorous cite-check --doi "10.1234/example"Use the rigorous.cite_check tool with parameters:
file: path to bib file or manuscriptformat: bibtex, latex, or markdowndoi: optional single DOI to verifyPASS [best2010] Best et al. 2010 -- DOI verified, metadata matches
WARN [smith2019] Year mismatch: bib says 2019, CrossRef says 2020
FAIL [jones2021] DOI does not resolve -- possible fabricated reference
WARN [doe2018] Paper retracted 2022-03-150 -- all citations verified1 -- warnings (metadata mismatches, retractions)2 -- failures (unresolvable DOIs, missing references)~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.