nature-reader

nature-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hamzabellouch/agent-skills. It costs 193 tokens per session (1,016 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of nature-reader, MIT.

A tool for making Chinese-English, side-by-side readers of complete research papers from PDFs, DOI records, arXiv, publisher pages, or pasted text. It keeps figures and tables near the relevant translated text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to translate and study full papers, extract figures and tables, and organize recurring technical terms.
Why use it?
It makes long papers easier to read in both languages while preserving the relationship between the text, figures, and tables.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to translate and study full papers, extract figures and tables, and organize recurring technical terms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hamzabellouch/agent-skills/academic-nature-nature-reader
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 hamzabellouch/agent-skills --skill academic-nature-nature-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzabellouch/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 193 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,016 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.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00193 $0.01016
Opus 5 $0.00097 $0.00508
Sonnet 5 $0.00039 $0.00203
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00102

Measured 9d ago against content hash b52745af2f1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-reader 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to nature-reader — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Academic and Scientific Research/academic-nature-nature-reader/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Full-Paper Markdown Reader — Router

This skill is split into two layers:

  • A static layer under static/ that holds versioned, reusable content fragments (core principles, the reading workflow, the output contract, and per-source-format extraction guidance).
  • A dynamic layer (this file plus manifest.yaml) that detects the request's source format and loads only the fragments needed for the current job.

Do not try to apply the reading logic from memory or from this router. Always load fragments from disk as described below.

Routing protocol

Follow these five steps every time the skill is invoked.

1. Load the manifest and the core layer

Read manifest.yaml. It declares the source_format axis, the allowed values, and the file paths each value maps to.

Also read every file listed under always_load. These hold the core principles, the reading workflow, and the output contract that apply to every reading job, plus the shared Terminology Ledger used to build the recurring-term table.

2. Detect the source format

Decide the source_format value using the manifest's detect: hint and the user's input:

  • pdf-text — selectable-text PDF. Default.
  • scanned-pdf — image-only or OCR-required PDF.
  • html — publisher or preprint HTML page.
  • doi-arxiv — a bare DOI or arXiv link that must be resolved first.
  • pasted-text — pasted prose or notes with no retrievable original layout.

State the detected value in one short line to the user before processing, so they can correct you cheaply. A source may map to more than one value (for example a DOI that resolves to a PDF); load the resolution fragment first, then the fragment for the resolved artifact.

3. Load the matching fragment(s)

Read the file mapped for the detected source_format. Do not read every fragment in static/. Load only what step 2 selected.

4. Build the reader using the loaded material

Apply the loaded fragments in this priority order:

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 70 lines · 193 tokens per session scan A b52745af2f1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzabellouch/agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 193 tokens to every session and 1,016 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to nature-reader, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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