Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research validate-bib

Validate bibliography entries against citations in all manuscript files. Find missing entries and unused references.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Agent-Skills-for-Empirical-Research "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/14-luischanci-claude-code-research-starter/dot-claude/skills/validate-bib" ~/.claude/skills/brycewang-stanford-awesome-agent-skills-for-empirical-research-validate-bib-6b0eba && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/14-luischanci-claude-code-research-starter/dot-claude/skills/validate-bib/SKILL.md

source content

Validate Bibliography

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

Steps

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.

Notes

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