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light-citation
Verify scholarly references and claim-citation support for Light stage 10. Use when auditing a manuscript, claim map, bibliography, DOI/arXiv/PMID/ISBN/URL, BibTeX/CSL, citekeys, chimeric or fabricated citations, retraction/correction alerts, or preparing a canonical citation registry for typesetting. Builds provenance-preserving inventories, confirms metadata with independent authoritative sources, distinguishes CONFIRMED/CONFIRMED-MISSING/UNAVAILABLE/UNRESOLVED, records Crossref update direction, and emits the citation gate plus delivery artifacts.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 680 stars are split between them (about 68 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 57/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 6b44f57d1274, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Reads environment variables and sends network requests with them API clients do this to send your key to the service. Check which service it talks to.scripts/verify_refs.py:139 and 2 more
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md, scripts/doi_to_any.py:98, scripts/verify_citation_edge.py:65 and 4 more
Web addresses in its code:
- doi.orgreferences.md:95
- api.opencitations.netscripts/verify_citation_edge.py:18
- api.semanticscholar.orgscripts/verify_citation_edge.py:20
- api.crossref.orgscripts/citation_four_gate.py:512
- dx.doi.orgscripts/doi_to_any.py:268
- eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.govscripts/verify_refs.py:276
- api.datacite.orgscripts/verify_refs.py:431
- api.openalex.orgscripts/verify_refs.py:450
These are the sites named in the code, so it's where your data could go. It isn't a complete list: code can build addresses while it runs, and a few of these may be links rather than calls. Whatever you send also goes to the AI model you use.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.
| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onelight-citation Light0305/Light-skills · Skill | 57 | ★ 680 | ≈143 always | 4mo ago |
| skill-source-citations Arenukvern/mcp_flutter · Skill Same job: research & papers | 64 | ★ 388 | ≈73 always | 18d ago |
| citation-system kangarooking/system-prompt-skills · Skill Same job: research & papers | 46 | ★ 213 | ≈38 always | 6mo ago |
| citation-audit wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleep · Skill Same job: research & papers | 83 | ★ 18k | ≈111 always | 16d ago |
| citation-verification Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar · Skill Same job: research & papers | 76 | ★ 5.8k | ≈96 always | 16d ago |
| ai-citations-report OpenClaudia/openclaudia-skills · Skill Same job: research & papers | 63 | ★ 717 | ≈82 always | 25d ago |