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Verify Claim Faithfulness — Development agent for Claude Code

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A verification agent that independently checks, at the sentence level, whether each cited source actually SUPPORTS the prose claim attributed to it — distinct from whether the reference exists.

How to install Verify Claim Faithfulness

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/joshzyj-open-scholar-skill-verify-claim-faithfulness.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshzyj/open-scholar-skill/HEAD/.claude/agents/verify-claim-faithfulness.md -o ~/.claude/agents/joshzyj-open-scholar-skill-verify-claim-faithfulness.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Verify Claim Faithfulness does

name: verify-claim-faithfulness description: A verification agent that independently checks, at the sentence level, whether each cited source actually SUPPORTS the prose claim attributed to it — distinct from whether the reference exists. For every (claim sentence, citation) pair it decomposes the sentence into atomic sub-claims (direction, magnitude, population, causal status), retrieves the cited source's actual text via the tier chain (Knowledge Graph full-text → Zotero PDF → open-access

Alternatives in Development

TurboFlow Prompt Guide — Quick reference 155 ★
Claim Verify — Verify that cited claims in a paper accurately represent what the source\ 130 ★
Robin — Read-only, skeptical evidence auditor for a Superloopy criterion 109 ★