citation-audit

# Citation Audit Skill ## Purpose Verify every citation in a manuscript against its actual source. LLMs hallucinate citations, invent arXiv IDs, misattribute findings, and confuse authors. This skill catches all of that by fetching and reading each cited work. ## Why This Exists LLMs are unreliable with citations in three distinct ways: 1. **Ghost papers** — The paper does not exist. Title, authors, or venue are fabricated. 2. **Wrong metadata** — The paper exists but the bib entry has the wrong arXiv ID, wrong authors, wrong year, or wrong venue. 3. **Inverted claims** — The paper exists and the bib is correct, but the manuscript mischaracterizes what the paper says. All three are invisible to structural audits (cross-reference checks, compilation tests). They require reading the actual cited work. ## Inputs - The manuscript `.tex` file(s) - The `.bib` file - Web access (to fetch papers from arXiv, conference sites, URLs) ## Execution ### Phase 1: Extract citation contexts For each `\citep{}`, `\citet{}`, `\cite{}` in the manuscript: 1. Record the bib key 2. Record the surrounding sentence or paragraph (the **claim context**) 3. Classify the claim type: - **FACTUAL**: "X et al. found Y" / "X et al. measured Y" - **METHODOLOGICAL**: "We follow X" / "We use the benchmark from X" - **POSITIONAL**: "Unlike X, we..." / "X does not measure..." - **PARENTHETICAL**: "(X, 2024)" — no specific claim, just a reference 4. For FACTUAL and POSITIONAL claims,...