nature-polishing

nature-polishing is a skill for Codex from ResearAI/DeepScientist. It costs 80 tokens per session (2,750 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of nature-polishing, Apache-2.0.

A writing guide for polishing or restructuring academic text in an English style associated with the journal Nature. It also supports translating academic prose into English.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps revise manuscript paragraphs, abstracts, and sections; restructure arguments; translate Chinese academic text; and improve publication-quality wording.
Why use it?
It improves clarity and organization while keeping claims within the evidence, so stylistic edits do not hide gaps or make conclusions sound stronger than they are.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It helps revise manuscript paragraphs, abstracts, and sections; restructure arguments; translate Chinese academic text; and improve publication-quality wording.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/researai/deepscientist/nature-polishing
About the project

DeepScientist is a local research studio that manages the cycle from baseline experiments through research findings and paper-ready outputs. Researchers use it to organize autonomous scientific investigations, review progress, and take control when needed. The catalogue add-ons provide workflows and agent integrations for running research projects with it.

ResearAI/DeepScientist · 3,323 stars · on GitHub

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 ResearAI/DeepScientist --skill nature-polishing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist

Made for: Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,750 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 83% 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 $0.00080 $0.02750
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01375
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00550
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00275

Measured 11d ago against content hash e232fa09c1a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-polishing 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.

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

83% identical to nature-polishing — 31 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.

src/skills/nature-polishing/SKILL.md · 386 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 386 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature-Style Academic Polishing

This companion skill is adapted from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills/tree/main/nature-polishing. See UPSTREAM_LICENSE.txt for the upstream MIT license.

DeepScientist integration

  • Follow the shared interaction contract injected by the system prompt.
  • Use this inside write, review, or rebuttal when the user asks for Nature-leaning English, Chinese-to-English manuscript polishing, section restructuring, or publication-quality academic prose.
  • Apply it after the evidence and claim boundary are clear. Do not use style polishing to hide missing support, overstate novelty, or make unsupported claims sound stronger.
  • Keep DeepScientist manuscript hygiene rules authoritative: no user/operator/agent provenance, route-control wording, prompt state, or local implementation shorthand in paper-facing prose.

Use this skill to improve scientific writing at two levels:

  • main strategy: paper architecture, section logic, reader workflow, evidence thresholds, and ethics
  • reference support: reusable phrase families, move patterns, transitions, and style checks

The main strategy should come from the course notes in Chapter1-Week1-7. The reference wording layer should come from Academic Phrasebank.

Default stance

  • Language serves argument. Do not polish sentences while leaving the reasoning broken.
  • Write with empathy for the reader: relevance first, then novelty, then trust, then reuse, then meaning.
  • There should be no mystery for the writer, but there may be one for the reader.
  • Do not invent data, references, mechanisms, or novelty claims.
  • Do not let AI draft the paper's core scientific argument from scratch.
  • If the draft is Chinese or structurally rough, reconstruct the logic first and the prose second.

When to open extra files

These files are reference support. Use them after the section's rhetorical job is clear.

File Open when
references/section-moves.md You need section-specific move orders or phrase patterns derived from Academic Phrasebank
references/phrasebank-playbook.md You need hedging, transition, evidence, limitation, or future-work phrase families
references/style-guardrails.md You need academic-style checks, paragraph/sentence checks, article use, register, or mechanics

Read the full file on GitHub · 386 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 · 386 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A e232fa09c1a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-polishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository ResearAI/DeepScientist (3,323 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,750 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to nature-polishing, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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