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citesure 0.5.17: soft-check ORCID iDs before you ship

Citesure 0.5.17 adds soft-checking for ORCID iDs, validating their shape, resolving public records, and warning when the listed author is clearly wrong. The tool treats ORCIDs like other soft identifiers, catching placeholder and mismatched IDs in CI pipelines.

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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.

citesure lint-orcids

)citesure orcid

)citesure_orcid

for agentsorcid-authors

pip install https://github.com/SybilGambleyyu/citesure/releases/download/v0.5.17/citesure-0.5.17-py3-none-any.whl
citesure orcid 0000-0002-1825-0097
citesure orcid refs.bib
citesure lint-orcids refs.bib

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

Evidence: 250/250 integrity · 38/38 claims · 67 unit tests · 13 packs.

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