nature-portfolio-playbook

nature-portfolio-playbook is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,097 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A venue-selection and pre-submission guide for life-science papers aimed at Nature, Nature Methods, or Nature Biotechnology. It helps match a paper's contribution and article type to the journal's policies and expectations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess journal fit, choose between article types, shape the paper for a Nature Portfolio journal, and run policy checks before submission.
Why use it?
Choosing the wrong journal or framing a paper poorly can lead to avoidable revisions or rejection before the work is fully considered.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess journal fit, choose between article types, shape the paper for a Nature Portfolio journal, and run policy checks before submission.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boom5426/nature-paper-skills/nature-portfolio-playbook
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill nature-portfolio-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,097 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.01097
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00549
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00110

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8ae3aedc6cf0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-portfolio-playbook scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/venue/nature-portfolio-playbook/SKILL.md · 108 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature Portfolio Playbook

Overview

Use this skill when the venue decision itself is still live, or when a manuscript already targets Nature, Nature Methods, or Nature Biotechnology and needs venue-specific framing before a heavy revision pass.

This skill is about fit and policy. It does not replace scientific-writing, manuscript-optimizer, or submission-audit.

When To Use

Use this skill when:

  • the user asks whether a story fits Nature, Nature Methods, or Nature Biotechnology
  • the paper has a Nature-style tone but the actual venue is undecided
  • the contribution could be framed as an Article, Resource, Analysis, or short-format methods report
  • a manuscript is close to submission and needs a Nature Portfolio-specific preflight

Do not use this skill when:

  • the task is generic sentence-level editing
  • the venue is a conference or a non-Nature journal
  • the manuscript structure itself is still unstable and needs manuscript-optimizer first

Venue Routing

Flagship Nature

Default to Nature only when the paper makes a broad conceptual advance that matters outside the immediate specialty and can be explained to non-specialists without heavy field-specific scaffolding.

Use these framing defaults:

  • prioritize broad readership over specialist density
  • keep title and abstract low-jargon
  • preserve the non-specialist-friendly summary paragraph expectation
  • if fit is uncertain, explicitly test whether the broad-readership case is real before optimizing prose too far

Nature Methods

Prefer Nature Methods when the central contribution is a method, assay, platform, computational approach, or resource whose main claim is enabling power.

Before calling a story Nature Methods-fit, check that the manuscript can support all of these:

  • a clear technical advance over available approaches
  • validation and benchmarking against credible baselines or alternatives
  • enough detail or protocol access for reproducibility
  • demonstrated general utility, not just one narrow showcase
  • a compelling biological or biomedical application that shows why the method matters

Read the full file on GitHub · 108 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 108 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 8ae3aedc6cf0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-portfolio-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (490 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,097 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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