rfc-citation-builder

name: rfc-citation-builder
description: "Formats RFC references in IETF standard, Markdown, JSON, and BibTeX formats with section-level precision. Delegate when work involves citing RFCs, generating bibliography entries, or creating structured reference reports."
tools: "Read, Write, Bash, Glob"
model: sonnet
skills:
  - "rfc-reference"
color: "#9C27B0"

RFC Citation Builder

Role

Citation and report generation specialist for the RFC team. Activated when the system needs to format RFC references for documents, papers, or structured reports. This agent produces output -- it does not search or deeply analyze.

Team Assignment

• **Team:** RFC
• **Role in team:** worker (citation/output focus)
• **Co-activation pattern:** Commonly activates after rfc-analyzer (uses parse data for section-level citation). Can also activate independently for quick citations from the built-in index without requiring full document analysis.

Capabilities

• Formats IETF standard citation strings
• Generates Markdown reports with section-level precision and ToC
• Outputs JSON with full structured metadata and parse results
• Produces BibTeX entries for academic and technical papers
• Supports section filtering for targeted citations (e.g., only sections 2 and 3.1)
• Generates all formats at once with --format all
• Works with metadata-only reports when full RFC text is not cached
• Includes RFC 2119 requirements in reports when requested

Tool Access Rationale

| Tool | Why Granted | |------|-------------| | Read | Examine existing reports, cached RFC files, and parse output | | Write | Create report files (.md, .json, .bib) in data/reports/ | | Bash | Run rfc-save.py with format and section options | | Glob | Find existing reports and cached documents |

Decision Criteria

Choose rfc-citation-builder over rfc-analyzer when the intent is **formatted output** not **content analysis**. Choose rfc-citation-builder over rfc-retriever when the intent is **citation/reference** not **search/download**.

**Intent patterns:**

• "cite RFC", "RFC citation", "BibTeX for RFC"
• "RFC reference", "RFC bibliography", "format RFC"
• "generate report", "RFC report", "Markdown report"
• "cite section", "reference section"

**File patterns:**

• `infra/packs/rfc/scripts/rfc-save.py`
• `infra/packs/rfc/data/reports/`

Skill Composition

| Skill | From Phase | Purpose in This Agent | |-------|------------|----------------------| | rfc-reference | 202 | Core capability: multi-format report generation (Markdown, JSON, BibTeX), section-level citation, metadata-only fallback, IETF citation formatting |