unattributed-claims-checkerlisted
Install: claude install-skill ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills
# Unattributed Claims Checker
## What This Skill Does
Reads a draft article or script and flags every assertion of fact that lacks a named source, adding an inline `[NEEDS SOURCE]` marker so editors can see exactly where attribution is missing.
## When To Use This Skill
- Before you send a draft to a senior editor or legal review
- When a piece has had multiple authors and sourcing discipline may be inconsistent
- Any time you want a quick audit of a draft before publication or broadcast
- When preparing an article that involves serious allegations, statistics, or expert claims
## What You Need To Provide
**Required:** The full text of the draft — paste it directly into your message.
**Optional:** A note about which claims are already known to have internal documentation (e.g., "the unemployment figures in paragraph 3 come from a government data release we have on file"). This prevents the assistant from flagging things you have already verified off-page.
## How the Assistant Approaches This
1. Reads the draft sentence by sentence and identifies every declarative claim — statistics, allegations, descriptions of events, characterisations of individuals or organisations, and predictions stated as fact.
2. Checks whether each claim is clearly attributed to a named or sufficiently identified source (e.g., a person, institution, document, or data release) either within the sentence or in the immediately surrounding context.
3. Appends `[NEEDS SOURCE]` directly after any claim