What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you confirm whether a cited reference actually exists and whether its metadata (title, authors, venue, year, DOI/URL/ISBN) matches the real publication, preventing citation and hallucination errors.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Reference authenticity verification: Validates citations for English and Chinese sources, including journal articles, conference papers, preprints, books/monographs, dissertations, government documents, and web articles.
- Identifier-based checks: Verifies by DOI (CrossRef/DOI.org), URL (reachability + extracted metadata), title/author (CrossRef search), and ISBN (book catalog web search).
- Chinese CNKI-first workflow: Uses CNKI direct search via Chrome MCP/Chrome CDP when available; otherwise performs a mandatory multi-query WebSearch procedure across CNKI/Wanfang/百度学术/Google Scholar and assigns an explicit verdict (including “Likely Fabricated” and “Metadata Error” for Chinese literature).
- Hallucination pattern guidance: When verification fails, points you to English/Chinese hallucination pattern references to diagnose likely fabrication types.
- Batch verification output: Produces a summary table across a list of references with verdicts and confidence.
Quick Start
Use the literature-verifier skill to check whether the following citation is real and if its DOI/metadata match: paste the full reference text and ask for a verified verdict for both existence and metadata accuracy.