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Absent Author is an open-source research-integrity toolkit with an evidence catalog, two agent skills, and supporting scripts for examining whether a research paper has been responsibly authored, steered, and checked by a human. The `paper-author-pass` skill guides authors through questions, claim–evidence mapping, reference and number verification, prose review, and a final checkpoint; `paper-slop-screen` gives reviewers writing, research, and quality grades, locations and quotations for findings, a quadrant classification, a review paragraph, and a note for an area chair. Its standalone tools lint surface patterns, verify references, compare quantities across a paper, and inspect PDFs for hidden or remapped text; the tools report candidates for human review rather than AI-detection verdicts. The repository also maintains a sourced evidence list with false-positive notes and paper-type exemptions. The skills can be installed for Claude Code, Codex, or another agent that reads `SKILL.md`, and the project is MIT-licensed.
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Gives researchers and reviewers a way to check whether anyone really stood behind a paper. Two agent skills help map claims to evidence and find concrete problems like nonexistent references or numbers that change between tables, plus a separate 'llinter' for writing patterns.
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