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Citation Check — Development skill for Claude Code

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Claude Code skill that audits the citations in a manuscript: fetches the cited papers, checks each paper says what is attributed to it, fixes the reference list, and applies corrections as Word tracke.

How to install Citation Check

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

What Citation Check does

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README

citation-check

A [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) skill that audits the citations in an academic manuscript.

Given a Word (`.docx`) or LaTeX (`.tex` + `.bib`) manuscript it:

extracts every reference and the sentence(s) that cite it, and writes down the claim each citation is being asked to support;
looks up the published record for each reference on CrossRef (volumes, pages, DOIs, working papers that have since been published);
obtains the papers from legitimate sources (publisher open access, author pages, repositories, NBER/SSRN/arXiv) or from a local cited papers/ folder, OCR-ing scans that have no text layer;
reads them — in parallel, using subagents — and records whether each paper actually says, shows, or exemplifies what the manuscript attributes to it (SUPPORTED / PARTLY SUPPORTED / NOT SUPPORTED / UNVERIFIABLE), with a quote and page;
applies the fixes: for Word, as tracked changes in a new dated copy plus a replaced reference list; for LaTeX, as candidate _citecheck copies and a unified diff;
produces a spreadsheet of verdicts and a summary that separates what was changed from what is only flagged.

Install

Copy the folder to `~/.claude/skills/citation-check/` (or add the `.skill` package from Releases). Requires `pandoc`, `pdftotext` (poppler), `curl`, and Python with `lxml`, `openpyxl`, and `python-docx`; `ocrmac` (macOS) or `tesseract` for scanned PDFs.

Layout

SKILL.md — the workflow and judgment calls
scripts/ — extract_citations.py, crossref_lookup.py, docx_edit.py (tracked changes), format_refs.py (AMR/APA), make_report.py (spreadsheet), ocr_pdf.py
references/ — the verification-agent prompt, the verdict-to-edit guide, the LaTeX workflow
evals/ — test prompts and small fixture manuscripts with deliberately bad citations

Built by Victor Bennett with Claude while auditing a working paper; the guide's judgment calls (concept citations vs. specific models, inherited citations,