What is nature-writing?

A writing guide for drafting or organising scientific papers and first-submission materials in the style commonly used by Nature, a research journal.

Use it for abstracts, introductions, methods, results, discussions, conclusions, titles, related work, full paper arguments, and submission materials.

It gives writing tasks a consistent process and adapts guidance to the paper type, section, language, and journal. It works from claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts supplied by the author.

nature-writing — Skill for Codex by Yuan1z0825

About the project

Nature Skills is a collection of reusable skills that help AI agents handle academic writing and scientific visualization. Researchers and AI-assisted scholars use it to turn research tasks into repeatable workflows and usable outputs. The catalogue entries are skills from this collection.

Yuan1z0825/nature-skills · 40,913 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 Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-writing

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Yuan1z0825/nature-skills

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,967 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits

Socket pass 7 Aug 2026
Snyk pass 7 Aug 2026
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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00183	$0.01967
Opus 5	$0.00092	$0.00983
Sonnet 5	$0.00037	$0.00393
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00197

Measured 6d ago against content hash cd9a70949630, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nature-writing 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 6d 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/nature-writing/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature-Style Scientific Writing — Router

This skill is split into two layers:

A static layer under static/ that holds versioned, reusable content fragments (core stance + workflow, paper-type playbooks, per-section drafting guidance, initial-submission guidance, language-specific rules, per-journal style).
A dynamic layer (this file plus manifest.yaml) that detects the request's axes and loads only the fragments needed for the current job.

Do not try to apply the drafting 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 axes (task, paper_type, section, language, journal), the allowed values, and the file paths each value maps to.

Also read every file listed under always_load. These hold the default stance, writing workflow, and output format that apply to every drafting job.

2. Detect the axis values for this request

For each axis in the manifest, decide the value using the manifest's detect: hint and the user's input:

task — manuscript / submission-package. Use submission-package for first-submission materials, never for revision correspondence.
paper_type — research / methods / hypothesis / algorithmic / review. Default: research.
section — abstract / intro / related-work / method / experiments / discussion / conclusion / title. May be multiple. Ask the user if it is ambiguous and matters for the draft.
language — en or zh-to-en. Detect from the user's notes themselves.
journal — nature / nature-family / nat-comms / nat-mach-intell / generic. Default: generic. Use nature only for the flagship journal Nature, nat-comms for Nature Communications, nat-mach-intell for Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI), and nature-family for other Nature Portfolio titles or an unspecified Nature-family request.

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

60 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.

6d ago Changed cd9a70949630
13d ago First seen · 140 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A fc715aa8b2ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Yuan1z0825/nature-skills (40,913 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 1,967 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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