Source verify

Skill frankxai/marine-agent-skills/skills/source-verify

Use to verify every factual claim in a Blue Life Commons draft is backed by an acceptable source before PR. Defends against AI-generated text drifting from cited fact. Triggers — "verify sources", "check citations", "is every claim sourced".From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add frankxai/marine-agent-skills --skill source-verify

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SKILL.md

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Source verification (claim-level)

The #1 integrity failure for an agent-authored commons is plausible-but-uncited sentences slipped between the real citations. This skill catches them.

Procedure

Extract every factual sentence (a claim about the world: distribution, diet, behavior, population, status, law, statistics). Skip clearly-labeled first-person field observations and pure logistics.
For each, identify the supporting source in the artifact's sources[] / Sources section.
Check the source tier against SOURCES.md:
- Tier 1 (peer-reviewed, IUCN assessment, government monitoring) — required for core science claims.
- Tier 2 (NGO/museum/university outreach) — acceptable with attribution.
- Tier 3 (science journalism, documentaries) — context only, never a core claim.
- Never: forums, AI output, uncited blogs, social media.
Where the commons uses marine-mcp, call lookup_source to confirm a cited URL is real and already known to the corpus.

Output

SOURCES: PASS, or a list of un-sourced / under-tiered claims:

- "<sentence>" — no source / Tier-3 used for a core claim → add Tier 1–2 or remove the claim.

If any claim cannot be sourced, the rule is: remove the claim or mark the artifact status: needs-sources. Never leave an unsourced factual sentence in a merged artifact.

Built on SIP · Blue Life Commons.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

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