hfpclawer Academic Integrity Audit

Part of the Exo suite — literature (hfpclawer) → experiments (expflow-pde) → proofs (omega-architect). Three independent CLIs that meet through files and CLI calls, never imports. Entry skill: exo-suite-linkage (wiring, cost tiers low → medium → high, degradation ladder). Install: uv tool install hfpclawer · uv tool install expflow-pde · uv tool install "omega-architect @ git+https://github.com/diamond2nv/omega-architect@v0.2.3"

🔒 Sanitization: This skill ships in the public repo. Never embed private LAN IPs, real person names, or machine codenames in examples — use <placeholder> / Jane Doe / dev@example.com. Real values live in the repo's gitignored .hermes/internal-guide.md. See repo AGENTS.md "Public-Release Sanitization".

Take a paper draft (text, URL, or PDF) and verify every citation against local FTS5 → Semantic Scholar → OpenAlex. Spot fabricated references, misattributed authors, and wrong publication years.

Who this is for: Researchers who need to fact-check citations in LLM-generated papers, peer review submissions, or their own drafts before submission.

Overview

User: "Check this paper draft for citation integrity"
                      │
         ┌────────────┴────────────┐
         ▼                         ▼
  Extract citations           Load paper (text/URL/MEDIA pdf)
         │                         │
         └────────────┬────────────┘
                      ▼
         ┌─────────────────────────┐
         │  For each citation:     │
         │  L1: Local FTS5 (1ms)   │  ← hfpclawer audit
         │  L2: Semantic Scholar   │  ← hfpclawer citation_audit_s2
         │  L3: OpenAlex           │  ← hfpclawer citation_audit_oa
         │  L4: Citation Graph     │  ← MCP arxiv-search citation_graph
         └─────────────────────────┘
                      │
                      ▼
         ┌─────────────────────────┐
         │  Integrity Report       │
         │  [OK]  VERIFIED   12    │
         │  [?]  SUSPECTED   2     │
         │  [NF] NOT_FOUND   0     │
         │  [ERR] ERROR      1     │
         │  ⚠ FABRICATED     1    │  ← title+author mismatch => hallucination
         └─────────────────────────┘

Prerequisites

Python ≥ 3.10. Pick the install that matches how you work — uv is recommended, because the CLI then lives in its own environment (no conflicts with your project's dependencies):

# 1) Recommended — uv tool: isolated CLI install, `hfpclawer` on your PATH
uv tool install hfpclawer
hfpclawer init                    # writes config.yaml

# 2) Try it without installing anything (ephemeral, one-off runs)
# pin the version — `uvx`/`uv tool run` reuse an installed tool env (may run an older
# release), and an unpinned launch is a supply-chain (rug-pull) risk
uvx "hfpclawer==0.19.0" --help

# 3) Inside an existing project / venv (uv-managed)
uv pip install hfpclawer

# 4) No uv yet — pip and pipx both work
pip install hfpclawer             # or: python -m pip install hfpclawer
pipx install hfpclawer            # CLI-style install, functionally like `uv tool`

Optional extras — the core install stays deliberately small:

⚠️ nlp extra + PyPI (checked against the published 0.19.0 metadata): PyPI strips the direct-URL spaCy model, so that extra installs spacy only — fetch the model yourself with python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm. The loader falls back configured → en_core_web_md → en_core_web_sm and logs one actionable hint when none is present: entity enrichment degrades, nothing else breaks.

Where to find it: repo https://github.com/diamond2nv/hfpapers-crawler · PyPI https://pypi.org/project/hfpclawer/ · registry: clawhub inspect <slug>

Optional but recommended:

• Set S2_API_KEY env var (10x faster S2 lookups)
• Set OPENALEX_POLITE_EMAIL env var (10x faster OpenAlex)
• Enable arxiv-search MCP server in Hermes Agent config for citation_graph:

  # ~/.hermes/config.yaml
  mcp:
    servers:
      arxiv-search:
        command: "uvx"
        args: ["arxiv-mcp-server"]  # pin a version (e.g. ==1.2.3) — unpinned launch = rug-pull risk
  

Quick Start

1. Verify a Draft Paper (most common)

Paste the paper text (including its references section) and ask:

> Run academic integrity audit on this draft.

[paste paper text with references]

# Output:
# ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
# │ Academic Integrity Audit Report │
# ├─────────────────────────────────┤
# │ [OK] VERIFIED  "Fourier Neural Operator" (Li, 2020)        │
# │ [OK] VERIFIED  "Physics-Informed Neural Networks" (2019)   │
# │ [?]  SUSPECTED "Deep Learning for PDEs"                    │  ← no author/date
# │ [NF] NOT_FOUND  "Novel Superconductor at 300K" (Smith 2025)│  ← possible hallucination
# │ [NF] NOT_FOUND  "Quantum PDE Solver" (Chen 2024)           │  ← possible hallucination
# └─────────────────────────────────┘

2. Audit a Paper from a URL (arXiv / blog / preprint)

> Check this paper for citation integrity:
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08895

The skill will:

1. web_extract the paper text
2. Parse the references section
3. Run each citation through L1→L2→L3→L4
4. Return a formatted integrity report

3. Audit a Local PDF or Markdown File

Provide the file via Hermes Agent:

> Read and audit citations in MEDIA:/path/to/paper.pdf

The skill reads the text, extracts citations, and reports.

How It Works

Citation Extraction

The extractor finds these patterns:

• "Title" (Author, Year) — author-year-title format
• Author (Year) "Title" — title-quoted format
• arXiv:XXXX.XXXXX — arxiv IDs
• [1] Author. "Title". Journal. Year. — numbered bibliography (basic)

Verification Cascade

Status Definitions

Integrity Report Example

═══ Academic Integrity Audit ═══
Paper: "A Survey of Neural PDE Solvers"
Total citations scanned: 22
Time: 2026-05-20T14:30:00Z
─────────────────────────────────
✅ VERIFIED   15/22  (68%)
⚠️  SUSPECTED  4/22  (18%)
❌ NOT_FOUND  2/22   (9%)   ← review these
🚨 FABRICATED 1/22   (5%)   ← "Quantum Fourier Neural Net" (Li 2025)
🔧 ERROR      0/22   (0%)
─────────────────────────────────
Verification breakdown by source:
  L1 Local FTS5:   11 verified
  L2 Semantic Scholar: +6 verified (cascaded)
  L3 OpenAlex:      +2 verified (cascaded)
─────────────────────────────────
FABRICATED citations:
  🚨 "Quantum Fourier Neural Net" (Li 2025)
     No arXiv match, no S2 match, no OpenAlex match
     Title sounds AI-generated (no such paper exists)
─────────────────────────────────
Recommendations:
  - Remove 1 fabricated citation
  - Check 4 suspected citations manually (2 may be preprints w/o arXiv ID)
  - Add DOI/arXiv IDs to 3 citations for future verifiability

Hermes Agent Environment

hfpclawer is built to run inside Hermes Agent (and OpenCode) as a first-class tool — the agent discovers the skill, and every command below is callable without leaving the session.

1. Install the skill — place this folder under ~/.hermes/skills/research/<slug>/ (or install from ClawHub: clawhub inspect <slug> --file SKILL.md); Hermes loads it automatically and skill_view(name='<slug>') returns this file.

2. Register the MCP server so the agent calls the CLI as tools:

# ~/.hermes/config.yaml
mcp:
  servers:
    hfpclawer:
      command: "hfpclawer"
      args: ["mcp"]        # stdio mode — Hermes native MCP client

For OpenCode / debugging use HTTP mode: hfpclawer mcp --mode http --port 8765.

3. Environment variables — every one is optional; the pipeline runs with none set:

4. Cost profile — the mechanical layer (search / dedup / verify / audit / Zotero) needs low-cost by design — not zero-cost. The core path (search / dedup / verify / audit / Zotero) issues no LLM call and needs no API key, so the marginal cost per run is small; it is still not zero — bandwidth, disk and CPU are spent, and rate-limited upstreams (arXiv / OpenAlex / Semantic Scholar) can throttle or expect a key at volume. LLM features (sniff, abstract triage) are opt-in and metered where they run; rank trains locally with lightgbm. Describe the cost as low, and keep the LLM steps explicit — do not advertise the stack as zero-token.

5. Keep private data private — real author lists, ORCIDs and Zotero ids belong in config.local.yaml (gitignored) or ~/.hfpclawer/profile.yaml, never in tracked files. The repo-side profile (the hfpclawer: block in a project AGENTS.md) is deliberately public-safe: neutral academic keywords only.

Common Pitfalls

1. arXiv-only papers may not appear in S2 or OpenAlex for 1-2 weeks after posting. If a very recent paper shows NOT_FOUND, try L4 (citation graph) or check manually.

2. Title substring matching can produce false VERIFIED for short titles. e.g. "Neural Operator" → matches "Fourier Neural Operator" (accurate) but "Deep Learning" → too generic, will NOT_FOUND or false-match.

3. S2 rate limits without API key: ~1 req/s, ~100 req/day. Set S2_API_KEY.

4. Local FTS5 requires arxiv-metadata-service clone. Without it, the cascade starts at L2 (slower but works).

5. Citation extractor is regex-based, not ML-based. Some citation styles (especially Chicago notes-bibliography) may not be parsed correctly. For best results, provide the references section in plain author-title-year format.

Verification Checklist

• Text draft: citations properly extracted and verified
• URL draft: paper fetched, references parsed
• MEDIA PDF: text extracted, citations checked
• FABRICATED citations flagged correctly
• Report includes actionable recommendations