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# Verify claims The model that wrote a claim is never the authority on whether that claim is correct. This skill checks a draft's citations and numbers with a verifier that **never sees the draft**, because an assistant that helped write a sentence cannot impartially confirm it — it will recognise its own phrasing and agree. Invented and misattributed references are the characteristic failure of these tools in academic work, and they cost more socially than a wrong number. ## The procedure 1. **Read the draft.** If no path was given, ask for one. 2. **Extract the checkable claims.** Number them. Four kinds: - citations — author, title, year, venue, and any DOI or identifier - attributed findings — "Smith (2019) shows…", "the standard requires…" - numbers — coefficients, sample sizes, dates, totals, percentages - named entities — companies, standards, institutions, people Scope it if asked: citations only, or numbers only. 3. **Write one verification question per claim**, worded so it does not carry the draft's framing. Not "confirm that Smith (2019) found X" but "what did Smith (2019) find about X?" The first invites agreement; the second asks a question. 4. **Gather the source for each claim without bundling the draft.** For a number, find the file, table or run output it should trace back to. For a citation, nothing is needed — the verifier looks it up. 5. **Fork a fresh verifier.** Dispatch a sub-agent with **only** the numbered qu