Verify Claims
Run Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) on a draft or a block of text with factual claims.
Install
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill verify-claims -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow1.7k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 1mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,025 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Run Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) on a draft or a block of text with factual claims. Spawns the `claim-verifier` agent in a fresh context (never a conversation fork) so it never sees the draft, then reports which claims are supported, contradicted, or unverifiable. Use when user says "verify these citations", "check the claims in X", "did I hallucinate anything", "fact-check this draft", "run CoVe on this", or after any text generation that asserts facts about papers, datasets, or numerical results. NOT for style/grammar review (use `/proofread`) or substance review (use `/review-paper`).
/verify-claims, Chain-of-Verification on a Draft
Fact-check a draft using the Post-Flight Verification protocol (.claude/rules/post-flight-verification.md).
Input: $ARGUMENTS, path to a file containing the draft (markdown, .qmd, .tex, .md) or a shorthand pointer. Optional flags:
--source <path-or-url>, one or more source-material pointers (repeat for multiple). If omitted, the skill infers from context (e.g., papers referenced, cited arXiv URLs).--no-fail-closed, downgrade FAIL outcomes to warnings without regeneration. Use sparingly.
When to pick this skill
/verify-claims(this skill), ad-hoc fact-checking on any draft or text block the user hands you. One-shot, user-invoked.- Other skills that auto-run Post-Flight internally (
/lit-review,/research-ideation,/respond-to-referees,/review-paper --peer), no need to call this separately; they already run it. /proofread, grammar, typos, overflow. Different lens./review-paper(default mode), full manuscript review, not just claim verification./validate-bib, checks citations exist and are well-formed (structural + DOI). This skill checks they hold (the cited paper supports the attributed claim). Complementary, run both before submission.
How it works
Implements the 4-step CoVe loop from Dhuliawala et al. 2023 (arXiv:2309.11495), with architectural enforcement of the fresh-context independence trick.
Phase 0, Pre-Flight
Confirm:
- Draft file exists and is readable
- At least one source pointer available (either
--sourceor auto-detected from draft) claim-verifieragent file exists at.claude/agents/claim-verifier.md
If any fail → surface the failure, do NOT proceed.
Phase 1, Extract claims
Read the draft. Identify factual assertions of these types:
