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Verify Claims

by Michał Turek · GitHub ↗ · v1.0.0
cross-platform ✓ Security Clean
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Install in OpenClaw
/install verify-claims
Description
Verify claims and information using professional fact-checking services. Use this skill when users want to verify facts, check claims in articles/videos/transcripts, validate news authenticity, cross-reference information with trusted fact-checkers, or investigate potentially false or misleading content. Triggers include requests to "fact check", "verify this", "is this true", "check if this is accurate", or when users share content they want validated against misinformation.
Usage Guidance
This skill appears to do exactly what it says: it will search public fact‑checking websites and present cross‑referenced findings. Before using it, consider that the agent will send claim text and search queries to external search engines and third‑party fact‑checking sites (including translations), so do not submit private, sensitive, or personally identifiable content if you do not want it exposed. Also be aware fact‑checks can be behind paywalls, dated, or regionally limited — ask the agent to cite exact fact‑check URLs and publication dates, and to include a summary of each source's conclusion and confidence level.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: verify-claims Version: 1.0.0 The skill is designed to verify claims using professional fact-checking services. It explicitly instructs the AI agent to fetch a list of fact-checking websites from Wikipedia and then perform targeted web searches on those sites, using `site:` operators, to retrieve and analyze articles. While it involves network access and web search capabilities, these are directly aligned with its stated purpose. The instructions include safeguards like avoiding 'fraudulent fact-checking websites' and clearly outlining when to use general web search as a fallback. There is no evidence of data exfiltration, malicious execution, persistence, or prompt injection designed to subvert the agent's core mission or compromise user data.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
The name/description match the runtime instructions: the SKILL.md describes selecting and querying fact‑checking services and cross‑referencing results. No unrelated credentials, binaries, or installs are requested.
Instruction Scope
Instructions direct the agent to fetch the Wikipedia list of fact‑checking websites and to run targeted site: searches (DuckDuckGo) against selected fact‑checkers. This is appropriate for the stated purpose, but it requires sending user content (search queries, claim text, translated terms) to external search engines and third‑party sites — which can expose sensitive user data if the user shares private material. The skill does not instruct reading local files or environment variables beyond asking for user language/location, which is proportional.
Install Mechanism
Instruction‑only skill with no install spec and no code files. Low install risk: nothing is written to disk and there are no downloads or package installs.
Credentials
The skill requests no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. It may ask for user language/location for relevance — that is reasonable and proportional to its purpose.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false and the skill has no install steps or hooks that would persist or modify agent/system configuration. Autonomous invocation is allowed (platform default) but is not combined with elevated privileges or broad credential access.
How to Use
  1. Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
  2. Run the install command in chat: /install verify-claims
  3. After installation, invoke the skill by name or use /verify-claims
  4. Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
- Initial release of the verify-claims skill. - Enables users to verify claims and content using professional fact-checking services worldwide. - Focuses on cross-referencing multiple trusted sources with regional and language relevancy. - Establishes clear guidelines for when to trigger fact-checking versus standard research. - Provides a step-by-step workflow for claim identification, source selection, searching, result analysis, and presenting findings. - Explicitly avoids unreliable or fraudulent sources and prioritizes user-friendly syntheses of verified information.
Metadata
Slug verify-claims
Version 1.0.0
License
All-time Installs 5
Active Installs 5
Total Versions 1
Frequently Asked Questions

What is Verify Claims?

Verify claims and information using professional fact-checking services. Use this skill when users want to verify facts, check claims in articles/videos/transcripts, validate news authenticity, cross-reference information with trusted fact-checkers, or investigate potentially false or misleading content. Triggers include requests to "fact check", "verify this", "is this true", "check if this is accurate", or when users share content they want validated against misinformation. It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 1419 downloads so far.

How do I install Verify Claims?

Run "/install verify-claims" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.

Is Verify Claims free?

Yes, Verify Claims is completely free (open-source). You can download, install and use it at no cost.

Which platforms does Verify Claims support?

Verify Claims is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).

Who created Verify Claims?

It is built and maintained by Michał Turek (@asgraf); the current version is v1.0.0.

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