Citations Skill

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Automatically adds user-provided links and citations to docs/research/references.md. Use this skill whenever the user shares a URL, paper, blog post, or external reference that should be recorded.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Citations Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by matteing/opal in .claude/skills/citations/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

When the user provides a link or citation, add it to docs/research/references.md automatically.

Rules

  1. Categorize — place the reference under the most appropriate existing ## section. Create a new section only if nothing fits.
  2. Format — use the existing bullet style: - [Title](URL) — One-sentence description. (source-context)
  3. Deduplicate — if the URL already exists in the file, update the description instead of adding a duplicate.
  4. TODO section — if the reference is speculative or needs further review, place it under the ## TODO section at the bottom instead.
  5. No prompting — do not ask the user whether to add the reference. Just add it.

Signals

GitHub stars
59
Forks
2
Last commit
Aug 2026
Hacker News mentions
20
Advanced
Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
citations
Source
github.com/matteing/opal