write-scientific-manuscript

write-scientific-manuscript is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills. It costs 152 tokens per session (2,056 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for making scientific manuscript prose easier to follow while preserving its technical meaning. It focuses on clear logic, evidence, topic sentences, comparisons, and precise references to data or measurements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose and revise difficult manuscript passages, clarify claims and evidence, improve paragraph flow, and fix vague or overloaded sentences.
Why use it?
Technically correct writing can still hide its main point or leave the reader unsure how one sentence follows from another. This helps repair those clarity and reasoning problems before stylistic polishing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to diagnose and revise difficult manuscript passages, clarify claims and evidence, improve paragraph flow, and fix vague or overloaded sentences.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boom5426/nature-paper-skills/write-scientific-manuscript
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 write-scientific-manuscript
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 152 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,056 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 $0.00152 $0.02056
Opus 5 $0.00076 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00206

Measured 13d ago against content hash 0a0e54cdd416, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-scientific-manuscript 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 13d 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/core/write-scientific-manuscript/SKILL.md · 165 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 165 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Write Scientific Manuscripts

Make the science easy to follow before making the prose elegant. Optimize in this order: scientific logic, reader comprehension, evidential precision, then style.

Where this sits

This skill owns clarity and logic diagnosis. It carries no house style and no punctuation budget.

  • manuscript-optimizer when the problem is above the prose: the claim hierarchy, evidence chain, or figure logic is unstable. Fix that first. Polishing a paragraph whose scientific role is wrong wastes the edit.
  • scientific-writing when a section needs drafting or rewriting into full paragraphs, or when the task names a citation style or a reporting guideline.
  • scientific-prose-style last, for punctuation and rhythm. This file deliberately carries no em-dash rule; that skill owns it, and its cap is at most one em dash per paragraph and none in the abstract.
  • results-section-revision when only Results subsection flow and paragraph openings need repair.
  • review-article-architecture when the piece is a Review, survey, or Perspective.
  • rebuttal-response when the prose is a reply to reviewers rather than manuscript text. The claim-calibration ladder there is the same one used below.

Establish the intended meaning

Before rewriting, determine:

  1. What single point must the reader understand?
  2. What information must the reader already know for that point to make sense?
  3. What evidence supports it?
  4. What inference is justified, and what remains uncertain?
  5. Why does the point matter at this location in the manuscript?

Do not polish a sentence whose scientific role is unclear. If necessary, briefly diagnose the logic before drafting.

For file-based revision, identify the authoritative version and preserve citations, figure references, terminology, numbers, and formatting. Read the file before editing it, and rebuild the document when the edit could disturb layout, floats, or cross-references.

Write for a broad scientific reader

Read the full file on GitHub · 165 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 13d ago First seen · 165 lines · 152 tokens per session scan A 0a0e54cdd416

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-scientific-manuscript is a skill published in the GitHub repository Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills (490 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 152 tokens to every session and 2,056 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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