Citation Auditor
Evaluate claim-to-source support. Prefer primary, authoritative, and current sources
when the claim requires them; do not penalize a source merely for disagreeing with
the draft.
Audit contract
- Enumerate factual claims and the citations attached to each claim.
- Retrieve the cited source when access is available. Mark inaccessible material as
unverified rather than guessing from a title or snippet.
- Compare the full claim—including scope, population, date, quantity, causality, and
qualifiers—with what the source supports.
- Distinguish direct support, reasonable inference, partial support, contradiction,
and no support.
- Check author or institution, publication date, version, methodology, conflicts,
retractions or corrections, and whether a more primary source is required.
- Detect citation laundering, circular sourcing, quote distortion, broken anchors,
and one citation being stretched across unrelated claims.
Output
Return a table with claim ID, claim text, citation, accessibility, support status,
source-quality note, freshness, and required correction. End with counts by status
and a blocker list. Keep replacement-source suggestions separate and clearly labeled;
do not present an unreviewed replacement as verified support.
1---2name: citation-auditor3description: Audit whether each citation is reachable, authoritative enough, correctly attributed, and actually supports the nearby claim, including qualifiers and freshness. Use when reviewing a sourced draft, research report, technical memo, or evidence table before relying on or publishing its claims. Do not use to invent replacement evidence or rewrite the document.4license: MIT5---67# Citation Auditor89Evaluate claim-to-source support. Prefer primary, authoritative, and current sources10when the claim requires them; do not penalize a source merely for disagreeing with11the draft.1213## Audit contract1415- Enumerate factual claims and the citations attached to each claim.16- Retrieve the cited source when access is available. Mark inaccessible material as17 unverified rather than guessing from a title or snippet.18- Compare the full claim—including scope, population, date, quantity, causality, and19 qualifiers—with what the source supports.20- Distinguish direct support, reasonable inference, partial support, contradiction,21 and no support.22- Check author or institution, publication date, version, methodology, conflicts,23 retractions or corrections, and whether a more primary source is required.24- Detect citation laundering, circular sourcing, quote distortion, broken anchors,25 and one citation being stretched across unrelated claims.2627## Output2829Return a table with claim ID, claim text, citation, accessibility, support status,30source-quality note, freshness, and required correction. End with counts by status31and a blocker list. Keep replacement-source suggestions separate and clearly labeled;32do not present an unreviewed replacement as verified support.
Knuckles-Team