Benchmark LLM reference recommendation capabilities by verifying every cited paper against Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, and DBLP. Measures hallucination rate, per-field accuracy (title/author/year/DOI), discipline breakdown, and year constraint compliance. Supports tool-augmented (ReAct + web search) mode.
SkillScore100Maintained
Automatic
◆AI Engineer pack
Last verified 8/14/2026
What it changes
Passed 21 of 21 test cases with the skill, and 5 of 21 without it.
Without skill22%
With skill100%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Sets report.language to 'en'.
Sets evaluation.timeout to 180.
Sets tool_config.enabled to true.
and 25 more in the full report
18 fixed5 passed either way0 still failing0 broke
Pass-rate lift
+78 pp
Tokens
+57%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-70%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/14/2026v123 of 23 cases passed with skill · 21 comparable
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 16 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 16
Prompt
What YAML configuration parameter under the `verification` section allows providing an email address to use Crossref's polite pool for better verification rate limits?
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Uses verification.crossref_mailto to specify the email address.
Missed
Passed
case-19 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/14/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md249 linessingle file
Reference Hallucination Arena Skill
Evaluate how accurately LLMs recommend real academic references using the
OpenJudge RefArenaPipeline:
Load queries — from JSON/JSONL dataset
Collect responses — BibTeX-formatted references from target models
Extract references — parse BibTeX entries from model output