Perplexity Web Search
davila7/claude-code-templates
Runs web-grounded searches through Perplexity's Sonar models over OpenRouter for current events, recent literature and cited facts beyond the model's training cutoff.
Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface.
Install Learn Verify
$ npx skills add vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verify --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/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .claude/skills/learn-verify && 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 "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .claude/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verifyType 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verify --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .agents/skills/learn-verify && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .agents/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verify --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .cursor/skills/learn-verify && 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 "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .cursor/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git --path skills/learn-verify--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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verify --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .gemini/skills/learn-verify && 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 "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .gemini/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verifyInstalls 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .github/skills/learn-verify && 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 "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .github/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod learn-verify --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/learn-verify .opencode/skills/learn-verify && 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 "learn-verify" agent skill from https://github.com/vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod/tree/main/skills/learn-verify into .opencode/skills/learn-verify/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "learn-verify", 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
learn-verify- GitHub stars
- 163
- Token cost
- ~477 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 185 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 5
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface.
- Works in 5 steps: Write the claim in one falsifiable… → Fetch or search primary-ish sources… → Quote or paraphrase the supporting line.… → …
- The user runs /learn-verify
- SKILL.md covers When to run, Method, Verdict and Rules
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Learn Verify is an agent skill from vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod. Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface. Use when the user runs /learn-verify or /skill:learn-verify, or says fact-check, verify this, is this true, source this, don't hallucinate, or when a teach/plan step needs a claim checked before it is taught as fact.
Its SKILL.md is about 480 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. The repository describes itself as: One-to-one AI teaching skills (Alvar method) for Codex, Claude Code, Grok, Pi, and OpenCode. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- The user runs /learn-verify
- /skill:learn-verify
- Says fact-check
- Dont hallucinate
Example prompts
- “/learn-verify”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Write the claim in one falsifiable sentence.
- Fetch or search primary-ish sources (paper, textbook, official docs, standard reference). Do not cite a URL you did not open.
- Quote or paraphrase the supporting line. Note edition / year if it matters.
- Mark disagreements. Prefer the source the field actually uses.
- Return a verdict.
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5d39056. 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 (its code samples are markdown).
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
Learn Verify loads about 477 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 185 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
The full file from vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod at commit 5d39056, republished under its MIT licence (© vasanthsreeram). 185 words, ~477 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/learn-verify/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- learn-verify
- description
- Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface. Use when the user runs /learn-verify or /skill:learn-verify, or says fact-check, verify this, is this true, source this, don't hallucinate, or when a teach/plan step needs a claim checked before it is taught as fact.
- license
- MIT
- metadata.author
- vasanthsreeram
- metadata.version
- 1.0
- metadata.source
- Eero Alvar — How I Use AI to Learn Things https://youtu.be/kzcI5F4tGiU
Learn verify
Trust is engineered. Check the claim before it is taught as fact.
When to run
- Empirical, historical, bibliographic, or API/tool claims
- Named theorems, identities, or "standard facts" you cannot reconstruct
- Anything you were about to present with unearned certainty
Skip a full search only when you can derive the statement in-session and the learner does not need an external citation. Still say that it was derived, not sourced.
Method
- Write the claim in one falsifiable sentence.
- Fetch or search primary-ish sources (paper, textbook, official docs, standard reference). Do not cite a URL you did not open.
- Quote or paraphrase the supporting line. Note edition / year if it matters.
- Mark disagreements. Prefer the source the field actually uses.
- Return a verdict.
Verdict
## Claim
…
## Verdict
confirmed | qualified | contradicted | unknown
## Sources
- <title> — <url or citation> — <what it says>
## Teach as
<one sentence the teacher may now say, with any hedge>qualified = true under stated assumptions (dimension, characteristic, gauge, version).
unknown = do not teach it as fact. Say you could not verify.
Rules
- No invented papers, quotes, or page numbers.
- One claim per run. Batch only if they are the same fact in different words.
- Write the verdict into the session file if a teach session is open.
© vasanthsreeram, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/learn-verify of vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5d39056
Compare with similar skills
Learn Verify 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learn Verify this skillvasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod | 163 | — | ~477 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Perplexity Web Searchdavila7/claude-code-templates | 33k | 11 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| 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 | |
| Deep Research Agent TeamImbad0202/academic-research-skills | 51k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Docs Grounding Verifiermicrosoft/apm | 4k | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Learn Verify
What does Learn Verify do?
Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface. Learn Verify is an agent skill from vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod. Fact-check a teaching claim against sources so the learner can trust the single interface.
When should I use Learn Verify?
Learn Verify fits situations like: the user runs /learn-verify; /skill:learn-verify; says fact-check; dont hallucinate.
How do I install Learn Verify in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/learn-verify in vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod) into .claude/skills/learn-verify in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Learn Verify in Codex?
Run `npx skills add vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/learn-verify in vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod) into .agents/skills/learn-verify in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Learn Verify 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 vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod --skill learn-verify -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/learn-verify, .gemini/skills/learn-verify, .github/skills/learn-verify and .opencode/skills/learn-verify in your project.
What does Learn Verify need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Learn Verify is instructions for the agent only.
Does Learn Verify 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 Learn Verify 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 Learn Verify use?
Learn Verify is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Learn Verify use?
About 477 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k 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 Learn Verify?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Learn Verify: Perplexity Web Search (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Citation Verification Guide (Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar, 5.7k stars), Article Fact Checker (digoal/blog, 8.6k stars) and Deep Research Agent Team (Imbad0202/academic-research-skills, 51k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Learn Verify?
vasanthsreeram (a GitHub user) maintains it in vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod, which has 163 GitHub stars. The repository holds 5 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 16, 2026.
Source: vasanthsreeram/Alvarmethod on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.