Overview
citation-audit is an open-source security skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by wanshuiyin. Its author describes it as: “Zero-context verification that every bibliographic entry in the paper is real, correctly attributed, and used in a context the cited paper actually supports — catching hallucinated authors, wrong years, fabricated ven…”. The project has 15k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep ~/.claude/skills/citation-audit`.
What citation-audit does
> 🔒 **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`.
What’s inside
The SKILL.md for citation-audit is organised into these sections:
- When to Use This Skill
- What This Skill Catches
- Constants
- Workflow
- Step 1: Discover bib file and section files
- Step 2: Extract all (cite-key, context) pairs
- Step 3: Send each entry to fresh cross-model reviewer
- Step 4: Aggregate verdicts
- Step 5: Generate human-readable report
- Step 6: Apply fixes (interactive)
- Step 7: Recompile and verify
- Uncited Entry Detection (opt-in)
Installation
Add citation-audit to your agent with:
git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep ~/.claude/skills/citation-auditReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — declared in the repository topics
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
License
citation-audit is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, an established project with 14,858 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 90 days
Author
Topics
Frequently asked questions
- What does citation-audit do?
- Zero-context verification that every bibliographic entry in the paper is real, correctly attributed, and used in a context the cited paper actually supports — catching hallucinated authors, wrong years, fabricated venues, version mismatches, and wrong-context citations. Use when user says "审查引用", "check citations", "citation audit", "verify references", "引用核对", or before submission to ensure bibliography integrity.
- How do I install citation-audit?
- Run git clone https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep ~/.claude/skills/citation-audit in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep before installing.
- Is citation-audit free to use?
- Yes. citation-audit is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.
- Which agents does citation-audit work with?
- citation-audit lists Claude Code and Codex — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does citation-audit come from?
- citation-audit ships inside wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep, a repository that contains 41 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 14,858 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
