Dave Flanagan's plugin for Simon Willison's LLM command-line tool: it verifies academic citations against the Crossref database in real time as an LLM generates them — catching fabricated references at the point of creation.
Benefits & outcomes
Open source, small, and pointed exactly at the fabricated-citation problem now documented at scale.
Publisher / company: Dave Flanagan (open source)
Date of mention: 22/07/2025
Source: https://github.com/DWFlanagan/llm-citation-verifier