nature-citation

nature-citation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills. It costs 150 tokens per session (2,443 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research-paper citation tool for adding references to manuscript text. It breaks long passages into smaller claims, finds papers from selected Nature, Science, and Cell journals, and exports references for tools such as EndNote, RIS, or Zotero.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split manuscript text into citable sections, search within a chosen publication period and journal group, assess evidence strength, and create an importable reference file.
Why use it?
It helps avoid attaching one weak or merely related reference to a paragraph. It also makes checking whether a paper truly supports each claim easier.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to split manuscript text into citable sections, search within a chosen publication period and journal group, assess evidence strength, and create an importable reference file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills/nature-citation
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 niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills --skill nature-citation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,443 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 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 $0.00150 $0.02443
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01222
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00489
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00244

Measured 11d ago against content hash 48e39e7e8d37, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-citation 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/nature_citation.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

nature-citation/SKILL.md · 229 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 229 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature Citation

Use this skill to turn manuscript text into a defensible citation export:

  • segmented text with citation candidates for each segment
  • a reference-manager import file in .enw, .ris, or Zotero .rdf
  • conservative evidence notes explaining whether each candidate truly supports the segment

Chinese-user operating mode

When the user writes in Chinese, asks for "Nature系列", "CNS及其子刊", "支撑文献", "补引用", "自动给出引用", "分段引用", "导出EndNote", "RIS", "Zotero", "RDF", or provides Chinese manuscript text:

  • Accept the text in Chinese, but search using English concept queries unless the topic is explicitly China-specific or Chinese-language scholarship.
  • Return segment notes and evidence notes in Chinese by default.
  • Preserve the exact source segment and translate it into one or more English search claims.
  • Flag overclaiming clearly in Chinese: 强支撑, 部分支撑, 背景支撑, 不建议引用为该句支撑.
  • Do not present a paper as supporting the claim merely because its title is related.

Default scope

Interpret journal scope from the user's wording, but keep the filter strict:

  • Nature系列: search Nature Portfolio first. Include Nature, Nature [field], Nature Communications, Communications [field], Scientific Reports, and npj journals.
  • CNS: search Cell, Nature, and Science plus their major sister journals.
  • CNS及其子刊 or CNS/sister journals: search only accepted flagship and subjournal titles in Nature Portfolio, the AAAS Science family, and Cell Press.
  • 只要Nature/Science/Cell正刊: restrict to the flagship journals Nature, Science, and Cell.

Do not treat merely related journals as in-scope. A title is valid only if it is in the accepted publisher-family whitelist or clearly matches the official naming pattern for that family. If the user needs an exhaustive or submission-critical boundary, verify current official journal pages before finalizing because journal portfolios change.

Source hierarchy

Use sources in this order:

  1. Structured bibliographic metadata: Crossref, PubMed/NCBI E-utilities, DOI metadata.
  2. Publisher pages: nature.com, science.org, cell.com, and official journal pages.
  3. Full text or abstract pages, if accessible.
  4. Secondary databases such as Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Web of Science, or Scopus only as discovery aids, not as the sole support basis.

Read the full file on GitHub · 229 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 11d ago First seen · 229 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 48e39e7e8d37

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nature-citation is a skill published in the GitHub repository niuz257470-ctrl/natureskills (61 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 2,443 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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