Nature Skills

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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.
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# 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.