citesure 0.5.17: soft-check ORCID iDs

2026-07-23 · SybilGambleyyu

Bibliographies increasingly carry ORCID iDs. LLM drafts also invent them. citesure 0.5.17 treats ORCID like other soft identifiers: validate the shape, resolve the public record, and warn when the listed author is clearly wrong.

What it does

Offline ISO 7064 mod 11-2 checksum (citesure lint-orcids)
Online public API person resolve + author-name soft-match (citesure orcid)
Disk-cached person records; MCP tool citesure_orcid for agents
Domain pack orcid-authors (Haak, Fenner, FAIR authors, Carberry demo)

Examples

pip install https://github.com/SybilGambleyyu/citesure/releases/download/v0.5.17/citesure-0.5.17-py3-none-any.whl

# single iD
citesure orcid 0000-0002-1825-0097

# bibliography (orcid fields)
citesure orcid refs.bib
citesure lint-orcids refs.bib   # no network
citesure packs                  # includes orcid-authors

This is a soft check: a resolved ORCID does not prove authorship of a paper, and missing ORCID fields are ignored. Use it to catch placeholder and mismatched iDs in CI the same way you catch bad DOIs.

Evidence remains 250/250 integrity · 44/44 claims · 67 unit tests · 13 packs (through v0.5.19).

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