Nature Skills

Install

npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --list

This is third-party code. Review the repository files before installing.

What it does

About twenty skills cover the cycle of preparing a research paper. There is multi-source literature search with citation checks, field-by-field reference verification, paper reading with side-by-side translation, paper cards and a daily literature pipeline. For writing there are section drafts, Nature-style polishing and translation, statistics review and data availability statements. The skills also build scientific figures in Python or R, simulate peer review, draft reviewer responses, make journal club PPTX decks and draft a Chinese patent from a paper.

Who it is for. For graduate students and researchers who prepare papers for international journals and work with an agent.

Example request

Use nature-ref-verifier to check the reference list in references.bib

Limitations

Docs and some prompts are in Chinese, and journal guidance targets the Nature family. Several skills are Draft or Beta. Some skills need Python, R, Playwright or a search MCP server with PUBMED_EMAIL, and sources like Scopus need your own credentials. Paper downloads rely on your library access.

How to disable. Remove the nature-* folders from the agent's skills directory or run npx skills remove for the skills you installed.

Security check

• Some skills run Python scripts and a browser
• The downloader skill uses a browser session with library access

README in short

The Chinese README has sample prompts, install routes via npx skills, for Claude Code, for Codex with hook-based auto-update and for Chatbox, plus a skill table with statuses and triggers. It lists Python dependencies for specific skills and search MCP server setup. The top of the README includes the author's commercial offers unrelated to the skills. Apache 2.0 licensed.

SKILL.md

---
name: nature-polishing
description: Polish, translate, or tighten existing academic prose while preserving facts, terminology, and evidence boundaries. Use for 论文润色、学术翻译、正文精简, or manuscript LaTeX layout fixes. Use nature-writing when the main task is drafting new sections or rebuilding the manuscript argument.
---

# Nature-Style Academic Polishing — Router

## Routing protocol

For a new polishing task, follow the routing below. For follow-up edits, reuse established task choices and already loaded guidance; read additional fragments only when the requested scope changes.

### 1. Load the manifest and the core layer

Read [manifest.yaml](manifest.yaml). It declares the axes (`paper_type`, `section`, `language`, `journal`), the allowed values, and the file paths each value maps to.

Also read every file listed under `always_load`. These hold the default stance, failure-mode diagnosis, ethics, and output format that apply to every polish job.

### 2. Detect the axis values for this request

For each axis in the manifest, decide the value using the manifest's `detect:` hint and the user's input:

- `paper_type` — research / methods / hypothesis / algorithmic / review. Default: research.
- `section` — abstract / intro / results / discussion / conclusion / title / methods. May be multiple. Ask the user if it is ambiguous and matters for the polish.
- `language` — en or zh-to-en. Detect from the draft itself.
- `journal` — nature / nat-comms / nat-mach-intell / generic. Default:
  generic. Use `nature` only for flagship Nature, `nat-comms` for Nature
  Communications and `nat-mach-intell` for Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI).
  Do not route another Nature Portfolio title through flagship Nature rules.

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