Citation Discipline

by tangxiangru

Citation Discipline is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by tangxiangru in AutoR.

804 stars25 forkson tangxiangru/AutoRAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/22

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Install Citation Discipline

Copy Citation Discipline into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tangxiangru/AutoR/tree/main/src/skills/citation-discipline ~/.claude/skills/citation-discipline

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tangxiangru/AutoR.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: src/skills/citation-discipline/SKILL.md in tangxiangru/AutoR
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/citation-discipline
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Citation Discipline does

Citation Discipline helps verify citations, BibTeX entries, and claim support during Stage 07 writing. Use it when a reference is unresolved, a paper may not support a claim, or citation_verification.json needs to be filled.

Citation Discipline is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Citation Discipline comes from a repository tagged agent, ai, ai-scientist, auto-research and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Citation discipline

Stage 07 must write workspace/artifacts/citation_verification.json, and the gate checks it has a non-empty claim_coverage list where every entry carries a claim and at least one citation_keys or source_ids value. That file is a record of verification, so it is only worth anything if verification happened.

reference.md in this directory is the long-form treatment: source APIs, the full verification workflow, BibTeX field rules, entry templates by publication type, and a troubleshooting table. Read it when a specific reference will not resolve.

The rule that matters most

Never generate a citation from memory.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Citation Discipline

What else does tangxiangru publish alongside Citation Discipline?
Citation Discipline is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tangxiangru/AutoR, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include A Deliverable Is Not an Instruction, A Value You Did Not Measure Still Has A Source and Answer The Why, Not Only The What. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Citation Discipline does, and is maintained by tangxiangru in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tangxiangru/AutoR page.
How does Citation Discipline compare to other Writing skills?
Citation Discipline ranks #559 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Citation Discipline against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.