amos689/paper-preflight

Overview

Pre-submission integrity gate for LaTeX papers. Every reference is verified against real scholarly records. Uses Python to check citations without relying on LLM guesses.

Best for

Best for
Researchers and journal editors who need factual citation verification before LaTeX submission.

Use cases

• Check reference validity before submitting a LaTeX paper
• Detect fabricated or incorrect citations in academic manuscripts
• Automate reference verification in a paper submission workflow

How to use

Install

npx skills add amos689/paper-preflight

Tools exposed

• PAPER_PREFLIGHT_EMAIL
• OPENALEX_API_KEY
• S2_API_KEY
• GITHUB_TOKEN
• NCBI_API_KEY

Tested with

Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code

Notes

Pre-submission integrity gate for LaTeX papers. Every reference is verified against real scholarly records. Uses Python to check citations without relying on LLM guesses.

38 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-10-09. Licensed MIT.

Use cases

• Check reference validity before submitting a LaTeX paper
• Detect fabricated or incorrect citations in academic manuscripts
• Automate reference verification in a paper submission workflow

Pros

• Verifies citations against real scholarly records, not AI guesswork
• Simple Python tool that runs locally without extra services
• Purpose-built for LaTeX documents

Cons

• Small user base, limited community support
• Only checks references, not other manuscript integrity aspects
• Depends on access to external scholarly record sources

Indexed from awesome-mcp-servers-punkpeye and enriched against its public facts.