academic-paper: citation-check has no trigger phrases in the SKILL.md description (fires 3 of 6 on plain-language prompts)
Summary
academic-paper/SKILL.md lists trigger phrases in its description for most modes (write paper, parse reviews, should we push back, audit my rebuttal, AI disclosure, and the zh-TW / ko equivalents) but carries nothing for citation-check. The only "check citations" / "verify references" phrases live in MODE_REGISTRY.md, which the skill router does not read at trigger time.
Evidence
Plain-language citation-check prompts in an eval pilot (plugin-evals-citation-check/, sonnet, 1 run each):
| Prompt shape | Fired? |
|---|---|
| "Please run a citation check on this manuscript excerpt. Target style is APA 7 …" (en) | yes |
| "請幫我檢查這篇稿子的引用。格式是 APA 7 中文版 …" (zh-TW) | yes |
| "Check the citations in this manuscript excerpt. IEEE style …" (en) | no |
| "can you look over the refs in this? …" (en, terse) | no |
| "Por favor revisa las citas de este fragmento de manuscrito. Estilo APA 7 …" (es) | no, see #850 |
| "Could you check the citations in this section? Chicago notes-bibliography …" (en) | yes |
3 of 6 fired. The same skill-fired indicator for the revision-coach suite went from 0/2 to 7/7 after #851 added the missing rebuttal phrases to the description, so this is the same class of fix.
Proposed fix
Add conservative, intent-specific phrases to the academic-paper description: check citations, citation check, check my references, verify references, look over the refs, plus zh-TW 檢查引用, 引用檢查, 檢查參考文獻, 核對文獻, and the ko equivalents that already exist for other modes. Keep the #452/#509 rule: no broad standalone words.
Re-run the eval suite's skill-fired indicator afterwards; the six fire cases are the acceptance check.
Source: Imbad0202/academic-research-skills