Validate bib

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all manuscript files. Find missing entries and unused references.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill validate-bib

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Cross-reference all citations in manuscript files against bibliography entries.

Read the bibliography file(s): Find .bib files in the project.
Scan manuscript files for citation commands:
- LaTeX: \cite{}, \citet{}, \citep{}, \citeauthor{}, \citeyear{}
- Extract all citation keys
Cross-reference:
- Missing entries (CRITICAL): Citation keys in .tex files without matching .bib entries
- Unused entries (INFO): .bib entries not cited anywhere
- Potential typos: Citation keys that look similar to existing entries (edit distance <= 2)
Check entry quality:
- Required fields present (author, title, year, journal/booktitle)
- Author formatting consistent
- Year values reasonable
- No encoding issues in special characters
Report findings with severity levels.

Missing entries are CRITICAL because they cause compilation warnings.
Unused entries are informational -- the user may want to keep them for future use.

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.