Citation Formatter — Development agent for Claude Code
Citation and reference list specialist for academic papers.
How to install Citation Formatter
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/shimo4228-claude-harness-citation-formatter.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shimo4228/claude-harness/HEAD/agents/citation-formatter.md -o ~/.claude/agents/shimo4228-claude-harness-citation-formatter.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Citation Formatter does
name: citation-formatter description: Citation and reference list specialist for academic papers. Verifies that all in-text citations have matching reference list entries, that reference format is consistent (APA-like / Chicago / etc.), that DOIs and arXiv IDs are valid, and that no orphan citations or unreferenced sources exist. Use PROACTIVELY before paper deposit, after source-fidelity-checker and vocabulary-consistency-checker pass. tools: ["Read", "Grep", "Glob", "WebFetch"] model: haik
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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