# citesure 0.5.17: soft-check ORCID iDs before you ship

> Source: <https://dev.to/sybilgambleyyu/citesure-0517-soft-check-orcid-ids-before-you-ship-mic>
> Published: 2026-07-22 23:14:38+00:00

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 agents`orcid-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.