Factcheck — Development skill for Claude Code
Verify citations/BibTeX entries against the claims they're cited to support.
How to install Factcheck
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/hverma99-phd-skills-factcheck/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hverma99-phd-skills-factcheck && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hverma99/phd-skills/HEAD/commands/factcheck.md -o ~/.claude/skills/hverma99-phd-skills-factcheck/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Factcheck does
description: Verify citations/BibTeX entries against the claims they're cited to support. argument-hint: [path to paper or bib file, or "." for current project]
Verify the citations and BibTeX entries used in the paper at `$ARGUMENTS` (if `$ARGUMENTS` is `.` or empty, use the current project). This means, for every citation attached to a specific factual or quantitative claim in the text: checking that the cited source actually supports the claim as stated (not just that the citation ex
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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