Moonweave-Research

Ref Verify — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Zero-hallucination reference verification for Claude Code — live CrossRef/S2/PubMed verification, verbatim abstract traceability, retraction check.

How to install Ref Verify

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open Moonweave-Research/ref-verify and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Ref Verify does

Zero-hallucination reference verification for Claude Code — live CrossRef/S2/PubMed verification, verbatim abstract traceability, retraction check.

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README

ref-verify

[English](https://github.com/Moonweave-Research/ref-verify/blob/main/README.md) | [한국어](https://github.com/Moonweave-Research/ref-verify/blob/main/README.ko.md)

**Stop citing papers that do not say what you think they say.**

`ref-verify` is an agent skill for citation verification. It helps Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and other skill-aware agents check references before they land in your draft.

Use it when you want an agent to find papers, verify a DOI, check whether a paper supports a specific claim, or audit references before submission. No server setup is required.

Install the skill

# requires npx (comes with Node.js)
npx skills add Moonweave-Research/ref-verify -g \
  --skill ref-verify \
  --agent claude-code cursor codex \
  -y

Works with **Claude Code, Cursor, Codex**, and any agent that supports the `npx skills` ecosystem.

After installation, use it like a normal agent skill. You do not start a server and you do not configure MCP for this workflow. No MCP server is required for this workflow.

The skill includes its own copy of the CLI engine, and the agent runs it from the skill folder, so nothing else needs to be installed. Python 3.10 or newer must be available as `python3`.

For explicit agent tool-calling rules, see [AGENT_USAGE.md](https://github.com/Moonweave-Research/ref-verify/blob/main/AGENT_USAGE.md).

Use it

Ask naturally:

verify these citations before I submit: [DOI list]
does this paper actually support the claim "actuation strain above 100%"?
find 3 papers supporting the claim that X, and verify each citation
check doi 10.1126/science.287.5454.836 against this title and year
audit all my references before submission

`ref-verify` stays quiet for general topic questions, prose editing, APA/IEEE formatt