# Citation Auditor

> 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.

- Skill: `knuckles-team/citation-auditor` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add knuckles-team/citation-auditor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/knuckles-team/citation-auditor/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Security
- License: MIT
- Author: Knuckles-Team (https://skillmd.com/u/knuckles-team)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/knuckles-team/citation-auditor

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# 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.