Verify References (Audit-Only)

Audit an existing manuscript or bibliography for fabricated or mismatched references. This skill never writes to references/ or manuscript/_src/refs.bib: corrections flow through /lit-sync (Zotero → Better BibTeX → refs.bib), and /manage-project's scripts/validate_project_contract.py flags any references/* file written here as drift. It does not discover literature (/search-lit), and it never replaces a missing or bad citation with a plausible alternative — replacements go through /search-lit or the user.

Inputs

1. Manuscript or bibliography: .md, .docx, .bib, .txt, or .tsv.
2. Optional project root. Default: current working directory.
3. Optional flags: --offline (extract and classify without API calls), --timeout N (HTTP timeout seconds), --strict, --no-openalex.

For markdown manuscripts with pandoc [@bibkey] citations, run a citation-key check first (/manage-refs's check_citation_keys.py, or your reference manager's). It catches mis-keyed cites; verify_refs.py catches fabricated metadata.