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.
npx skills add YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills --skill nature-citationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-citation)<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.
<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>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
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.
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 5.5 | $0.00060 | $0.01234 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00030 | $0.00617 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00308 |
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 1mo 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.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- nature-citation — 97% identical, 2 lines differ
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. IncludeNature,Nature [field],Nature Communications,Communications [field],Scientific Reports, andnpjjournals.CNS: searchCell,Nature, andScienceplus their major sister journals.CNS及其子刊orCNS/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 journalsNature,Science, andCell.
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.
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.
- evals/evals.json 1.8 KB
- manifest.yaml 1.6 KB
- README.md 4.9 KB
- references/journal-scope.md 2.1 KB
- references/ris-endnote.md 2.0 KB
- references/script-usage.md 3.2 KB
- references/search-strategy.md 2.9 KB
- scripts/nature_citation.py 69 KB runs code
- static/core/chinese-mode.md 767 B
- static/core/principles.md 3.0 KB
- static/core/workflow.md 5.3 KB
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 276 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 70f7e85048b5
nature-citation is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 3,084 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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