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touchneedle

v0.2.2

Verify that every citation and reference in a document is real, accurately described, and consistently used.

Claude Code1 Skill

By ncolemanLicense: MIT0 GitHub starsUpdated 9 hours ago

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Aug 31, 2026
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Install touchneedle for Claude Code

Installs for the current user
claude plugin marketplace add IchenDEV/agent-plugin-mkt
claude plugin marketplace update agent-plugin-marketplace
claude plugin install touchneedle@agent-plugin-marketplace

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Claude Code. They add and refresh the PluginsMP catalog, then install this plugin.

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/nicoleman0/touchneedle

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/touchneedle/.

Plugin files

plugins/touchneedle/
├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
└── skills/touchneedle/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

touchneedleskills/touchneedle/SKILL.md

Verify that every citation and reference in a document is real, accurately described, and consistently used. Checks reference entries against arXiv, Crossref, OpenAlex, the IETF datatracker and the live web; cross-checks in-text citations against the reference list in both directions; and drives a claim-support pass that reads each source to confirm it actually backs the sentence citing it. Handles author-date (Harvard, APA, Chicago), numeric (IEEE, Vancouver), MLA, and footnote (Chicago notes, MHRA) citation styles in Markdown or .docx. Use when asked to check citations, verify references or a bibliography, find hallucinated or fabricated citations, check for dead links in a reference list, or confirm sources say what a draft claims they say.

Plugin manifests1

plugins/touchneedle/.claude-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "touchneedle",
  "version": "0.2.2",
  "description": "Verify that every citation and reference in a document is real, accurately described, and consistently used.",
  "author": {
    "name": "ncoleman"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/nicoleman0/touchneedle",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "citations",
    "references",
    "bibliography",
    "academic",
    "fact-checking",
    "citation-checker",
    "hallucination",
    "llm",
    "ai-generated",
    "crossref",
    "doi",
    "arxiv",
    "pandoc",
    "docx",
    "markdown",
    "research-integrity"
  ]
}

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[touchneedle on Agent Plugins Marketplace](https://pluginsmp.com/plugins/touchneedle)