Research Verifier — Research agent for Claude Code
Independently checks the load-bearing claims in a /research note against their cited sources and returns a verdict table.
How to install Research Verifier
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/chrisadkin8-claude-skills-research-verifier.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisAdkin8/claude-skills/HEAD/agents/research-verifier.md -o ~/.claude/agents/chrisadkin8-claude-skills-research-verifier.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Research Verifier does
name: research-verifier description: Independently checks the load-bearing claims in a /research note against their cited sources and returns a verdict table. Read-only. Launched by the research skill after a note is written; not for general use. tools: Read, Bash, WebFetch, WebSearch hooks: PreToolUse: - matcher: "Bash" hooks: - type: command command: python3 "$HOME/.claude/hooks/agent-guard.py" bash
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Alternatives in Research
- Strategist Critic — Empirical strategy critic and gatekeeper 250 ★
- Deep Research Writer — Writes the single report.md of a nav-deep-research run from the run's source notes, following the readable rep 232 ★
- Claude Code MCP Behavior Analysis — Results from 15 tests against a minimal Cord MCP server 133 ★
Full documentation available on GitHub
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