What is nature-citation?

A citation tool for adding supporting references to manuscript text from selected Nature, Science, and Cell Press journals. It splits long passages into smaller claims and produces notes plus a reference-manager file.

Use it to find citations for manuscript passages, assess how strongly each paper supports a claim, and export references in EndNote, RIS, or Zotero format.

It helps check whether research papers genuinely support each statement instead of choosing sources based only on similar titles.

nature-citation — Skill for Claude Code by YuanyuanMa03

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 YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills --skill nature-citation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nature-citation, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,084 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 warn 7 Sept 2026

SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

medium Excessive Agency · line 182
Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.

Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.

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	$0.00150	$0.03084
Opus 5	$0.00075	$0.01542
Sonnet 5	$0.00030	$0.00617
Haiku 4.5	$0.00015	$0.00308

Measured 12d ago against content hash 70f7e85048b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

nature-citation — 97% identical, 2 lines differ

plugins/nature-citation/skills/nature-citation/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 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:

Structured bibliographic metadata: Crossref, PubMed/NCBI E-utilities, DOI metadata.
Publisher pages: nature.com, science.org, cell.com, and official journal pages.
Full text or abstract pages, if accessible.
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 · 276 lines

Files

What ships with it

11 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.

12d ago First seen · 276 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 70f7e85048b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-citation is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills (63 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 3,084 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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