nature-writing

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• Publisheryuan1z0825 GitHub userOwner of the repository this skill is read from
• Source folderyuan1z0825/nature-skills/skills/nature-writingThe exact folder we audited
• LicenceApache-2.0As the repository states it
• Commit pinned for this verdictc5a4a9d64275A new audit runs when the source changes
• Repository statusNot archivedPushed today
• Sandboxed runNot runSkills are read, not executed; layer L4 is skipped

Its description: Draft or restructure scientific manuscript arguments, sections, and initial-submission materials from author-provided evidence. Use for 论文写作、章节起草、论证重构、正文压缩、首次投稿材料. Use nature-polishing for language-only edits to…

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name: nature-writing
description: Draft or restructure scientific manuscript arguments, sections, and initial-submission materials from author-provided evidence. Use for 论文写作、章节起草、论证重构、正文压缩、首次投稿材料. Use nature-polishing for language-only edits to existing prose and nature-response for post-decision correspondence.
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# Nature-Style Scientific Writing — Router

## Routing protocol

For a new drafting 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 (`task`, `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, writing workflow, and output format that apply to every drafting 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:

- `task` — manuscript / submission-package. Use `submission-package` for first-submission materials, never for revision correspondence.
- `paper_type` — research / methods / hypothesis / algorithmic / review. Default: research.
- `section` — abstract / intro / related-work / method / experiments / discussion / conclusion / title. May be multiple. Ask the user if it is ambiguous and matters for the draft.
- `language` — en or zh-to-en. Detect from the user's notes themselves.
- `journal` — nature / nature-family / nat-comms / nat-mach-intell / generic.
  Default: generic. Use `nature` only for the flagship journal Nature,
  `nat-comms` for Nature Communications, `nat-mach-intell` for Nature Machine
  Intelligence (NMI), and `nature-family` for other Nature Portfolio titles or
  an unspecified Nature-family request.

State the detected axis values in one short line to the user before drafting, so they can correct you cheaply. This is a progress update, not an approval gate; continue unless a necessary decision remains unresolved.

### 3. Load the matching fragments

For each axis value, Read the file mapped in the manifest. Skip the `section` axis when the task is `submission-package` or when the user explicitly asks for a free-floating argument paragraph with no section context.

Do **not** read every fragment in `static/`. Load only what step 2 selected.

### 4. Draft using the loaded material

Apply the loaded fragments in this priority order:

1. Core stance + intake (`core/stance.md`) — surface missing claim / evidence / boundary before drafting.
2. Paper-type playbook — argument chain, drafting order.
3. Section-specific drafting rules and structure.
4. Task-specific submission rules when `task=submission-package`.
5. Journal-specific framing and constraints.
6. Language-specific sentence and paragraph rules (apply last).

For `task=manuscript`, use `core/workflow.md` at the requested scale. Plan the argument for a new section or substantial restructuring; a title, single paragraph, or local follow-up needs only the applicable evidence, wording, and consistency checks. Complete the requested prose unless a material unresolved decision blocks it or the user requested an outline for approval first.

When drafting or restructuring Results, or compressing a full manuscript's main
text, also load `../nature-shared/core/main-text-discipline.md` before building
the paragraph map. Classify every result by function, allocate it across main
text, captions, Methods/source data, and SI, then draft the shortest sufficient
evidence chain. Do not equate a complete analysis record with a complete main
text.

When the target is flagship Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Machine
Intelligence, or another Nature Portfolio title, load the matching shared
Nature-style corpus guidance for the section being drafted:

- Results or Discussion →
  `../nature-shared/core/nature-results-discussion.md`
- Introduction or whole-manuscript narrative →
  `../nature-shared/core/nature-introduction.md`
- Abstract → `../nature-shared/core/nature-abstract.md`

Use these files for claim escalation, question-chain alignment,
discovery-centred compression, and synthesis. They were initially distilled
from published NMI papers and generalized as Nature-style defaults; do not
present them as official policy, and let the target journal's current rules
override them.

For any Discussion drafting, restructuring, or section audit, also load
`../nature-shared/core/discussion-argument-language.md`. Use it to select the
opening anchor, control the reverse-funnel expansion, distinguish literature
positioning from citation decoration, calibrate modal strength to evidence,
and turn limitations and future work into claim-specific reasoning. This is
general writing guidance rather than an official journal rule.

For `task=submission-package`, follow `static/fragments/task/submission-package.md` and `references/submission-package.md` instead. Build the deliverable matrix and readiness audit; do not force manuscript paragraph architecture onto administrative submission materials.

If essential evidence or boundary is missing, write a placeholder and list it under `Assumptions or missing inputs:` instead of inventing content.

### 5. Reach for references only when needed

The files under `references/` are deep references and the example library, not defaults. Open them on demand per the `references.on_demand` table in the manifest. Typical triggers:

- The user asks for a concrete example or template → `references/examples/index.md`.
- A section's draft has structural problems that the section fragment alone does not explain → the matching `references/<section>.md`.
- The user needs a broad-audience `Nature` abstract opening or asks about a `summary paragraph` → `references/nature-summary-paragraph.md`.
- The user asks "does this paragraph flow

Excerpt, first 6,000 characters of SKILL.md, verbatim from the audited commit. It is text from someone else’s repository, quoted so you can judge it before your agent reads it.

git clone https://github.com/yuan1z0825/nature-skills
git -C nature-skills checkout c5a4a9d64275

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