Citation Verification Guide
Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
Reference guidance for checking every citation in academic writing against canonical sources such as DOI, arXiv, CrossRef and Semantic Scholar, to catch fake or wrong references.
Agent skill
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol
Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection.
Install AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .claude/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .claude/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocolType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .agents/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .agents/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .cursor/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .cursor/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git --path skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .gemini/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .gemini/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocolInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .github/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .github/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol .opencode/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol" agent skill from https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills/tree/main/skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol into .opencode/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol- GitHub stars
- 840
- Token cost
- ~5.9k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 2,044 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 160
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Custom licence
At a glance
Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection.
- Works in 4 steps: Verification requires time and database… → Some hallucinations are genuinely hard… → LLM hallucination rates vary by model… → …
- Students need to verify AI claims and citations
- SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection. Use when students need to verify AI claims and citations.
Its SKILL.md is about 5.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Research & Science, covering Fact-checking and source verification and Citation management. The repository describes itself as: 165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.
When your agent uses it
- Students need to verify AI claims and citations
- Tasks that involve Fact-checking and source verification
- Tasks that involve Citation management
Example prompts
- “/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol”
Workflow steps
4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Verification requires time and database access. The full verification protocol — finding a study, checking the abstract, verifying the…
- Some hallucinations are genuinely hard to detect. A real paper by a real author, published in a real journal, correctly summarised but…
- LLM hallucination rates vary by model and topic. Ji et al. (2023) documented hallucination across multiple models; rates vary…
- AI-specific applications of lateral reading have limited direct empirical validation. The lateral reading / SIFT evidence base (Wineburg &…
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6bbbce4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol loads about 5.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 56 tokens; SKILL.md has 2,044 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 2,044 words (~5,860 tokens).
“Generates a fact-checking protocol specifically adapted for AI-generated text — extending the SIFT framework (Caulfield, 2019) with AI-specific moves that address the unique challenge of LLM hallucination. Standard lateral reading assumes a source has an institutional author whose funding and…”
- name
- ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol
- disable-model-invocation
- false
- user-invocable
- true
- effort
- medium
- skill_id
- ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol
- skill_name
- AI Hallucination Fact-Check Protocol
- domain
- ai-literacy
- version
- 1.0
- contributor
- Gareth Manning
- evidence_strength
- moderate
- evidence_sources
- Wineburg & McGrew (2017) — Lateral reading: reading less and learning more when evaluating digital information, Wineburg & McGrew (2019) — Lateral reading and…
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4
Compare with similar skills
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol this skillGarethManning/education-agent-skills | 840 | — | ~5.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Citation Verification GuideGalaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar | 5.7k | 2 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Article Fact Checkerdigoal/blog | 8.6k | — | ~939 | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-2.0 | |
| Citation VerificationLight0305/Light-skills | 640 | — | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Grounded CitationsNousResearch/hermes-agent | 253k | — | ~3.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Reference VerifierYuan1z0825/nature-skills | 47k | 2 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 |
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Questions about AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol
What does AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol do?
Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection. AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a fact-checking protocol for AI-generated text, extending SIFT with AI-specific adaptations for hallucination detection.
When should I use AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol?
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol fits situations like: students need to verify AI claims and citations; tasks that involve Fact-checking and source verification; tasks that involve Citation management.
How do I install AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol in Codex?
Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/ai-literacy/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol, .gemini/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol, .github/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol and .opencode/skills/ai-hallucination-fact-check-protocol in your project.
What does AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol is instructions for the agent only.
Does AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol use?
AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.
How many tokens does AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol use?
About 5.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 23k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol: Citation Verification Guide (Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, 5.7k stars), Article Fact Checker (digoal/blog, 8.6k stars), Citation Verification (Light0305/Light-skills, 640 stars) and Grounded Citations (NousResearch/hermes-agent, 253k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains AI Hallucination Fact Check Protocol?
GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 840 GitHub stars. The repository holds 160 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.
Source: GarethManning/education-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.