rseng-fact-checkinglisted

Covers verifying facts and sources at the content level: checking that a cited source actually contains and supports the claim it is cited for (claim-source alignment), assessing source trustworthiness (peer-review status, venue reputation, predatory-publishing signals, primary vs secondary), and flagging fabricated or misattributed support. Use PROACTIVELY whenever the agent itself asserts checkable facts or attaches sources to claims, and when the user asks to fact-check a document, verify that references support their claims, or assess whether a source is trustworthy. (rseng-citation-hygiene verifies references exist and are unretracted; rseng-research-integrity checks a document's own numbers.)
fdiblen/rseng-agent-skills · ★ 20 · AI & Automation · score 81

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# Fact-checking and source verification A reference can exist, resolve and be unretracted - and still not say what it is cited for. That last mile is where fabrication actually lives: real papers attached to claims they do not support, secondary sources laundered as primary, numbers that drifted in retelling. rseng-citation-hygiene verifies that references EXIST and are current; this skill verifies that they SUPPORT their claims and deserve trust. The duty is self-referential and stated plainly: an agent that asserts a fact or attaches a source must be prepared to show where in the source the support lives - and must say "I could not verify this" when it cannot. Confidence is not evidence. ## Claim-source alignment: the core check For each claim-citation pair: 1. Extract what the claim actually asserts: the specific finding, number, method or position attributed to the source - not the general topic. Most misattribution hides in specificity ("X causes Y" cited to a paper showing correlation; "widely used" cited to a paper that merely mentions). 2. Open the source and FIND the support: the abstract often suffices for existence of a finding (OpenAlex serves abstracts); exact numbers, conditions and caveats need the relevant section. Record WHERE the support is (section, table) - unfindable support is the finding. 3. Grade the alignment honestly: supports as stated / supports with caveats the text drops / related but does not support / contradic