ref-verifylisted

# ref-verify — Reference Hallucination Guard The specific failure this skill prevents: LLMs describe paper content from recalled training data rather than from what the abstract actually says. A paper gets attributed findings it doesn't contain, or cited for claims that appear nowhere in the text. The fix is one rule applied consistently: **Every content statement about a paper must come from a live-fetched abstract, quoted or paraphrased verbatim. If you cannot fetch the abstract, say so explicitly — never fill the gap with recalled description.** --- ## Mode Decision Pick the mode before doing any work. The choice controls cost and depth. ``` User provides DOI(s) for sanity check? └─ ≤10 refs → Quick Screen all └─ >10 refs → Quick Screen all; Full Audit only MISMATCH/DEAD results User says "find papers on X" or "cite papers supporting claim Y"? └─ Full Audit (searching from scratch requires content verification) User says "verify/check my reference list" or pre-submission audit? └─ ≤5 refs → Full Audit all └─ >5 refs → Quick Screen all first; Full Audit MISMATCH/DEAD + any ref cited for a specific factual claim User is writing inline and adds a single citation from memory? └─ Quick Screen minimum; Full Audit if citing for a specific claim ``` The expensive part is Full Audit (5-layer, abstract fetch). Quick Screen costs ~5s per paper. Only escalate to Full Audit when the task genuinely requires content verification. --- ### Quick S