Detect hallucinated (fabricated) references in academic paper PDF files. Use when the user asks to check, audit, or verify the references/bibliography of one or more papers for hallucinated or fabricated citations, or names a paper PDF file (or directory of PDF files) to check. Extracts each reference, verifies it against academic databases (offline DBLP plus CrossRef, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and other open databases) without using an LLM, then triages only the database-unverified residue via web search and writes a report of likely-hallucinated references plus per-paper manual-verification sheets.
2026-06-24