citation-receiptslisted

Systematic per-citation verification protocol for academic writing. MUST be used whenever writing content that cites sources — papers, blog posts, SOTAs, or any document making factual claims about external work. Triggers (FR + EN) on any writing task involving references, citations, or bibliographic claims, or when the user asks to "verify citations", "check sources", "audit references", "validate bibliography", "produce receipts", "/paper-trail:audit-article", "/paper-trail:receipts". Produces a structured RECEIPTS.md report classifying each citation as VALID / ADJUST / INVALID with reason. Optional --warn mode inserts inline warnings into a .bak copy of the source document. Combined with sota-auditor (upstream existence audit), this skill is the **downstream** per-claim check.
roomi-fields/paper-trail · ★ 2 · Data & Documents · score 75

Install: claude install-skill roomi-fields/paper-trail

# Skill : Citation Receipts ## Why this skill exists The plugin's mechanical safeguards (FSM, page 1 anti-homonymy, cascade) prevent citing a fabricated reference. But they don't prevent citing a real reference for a claim it doesn't actually make. Examples that have occurred : - **Inverted result** : citing a paper as proving NP-hardness when it proves tractability - **Fabricated quote** : putting words in quotation marks that don't appear in the cited source - **Wrong attribution** : citing the wrong author for a known result (attribution chains) - **Equivalent ≠ formulated as** : saying X "is equivalent to" Y is much stronger than X "is formulated as" Y This skill enforces a per-citation read-before-cite protocol. Inspired by the `receipts` plugin (MIT, James Weatherhead) for the audit-PDF↔claim pattern. ## The golden rule **Read the source before you cite it.** Not the title. Not the abstract. Not what you think it probably says based on the author's reputation. The actual text where the result is stated. If you can't access the source, mark it UNVERIFIABLE explicitly — don't guess. ## When this skill activates This protocol applies to EVERY citation in : - Research papers (`paper-writer` skill output) - SOTAs / literature reviews (`sota-writer` skill output) - Blog posts and other academic content - `/paper-trail:audit-article <path>` — runs this skill on an existing article file - `/paper-trail:receipts <path>` — local audit (no remote API calls) - Pr