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-polishinggit 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.
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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 | $0.00077 | $0.02854 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00031 | $0.01142 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00571 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00285 |
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 today.
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.
This is a copy
95% identical to nature-polishing — 11 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 388 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Nature-Style Academic Polishing
Use this skill to improve scientific writing at two levels:
main strategy: paper architecture, published-article patterns, section logic, reader workflow, evidence thresholds, and ethicsreference support: reusable phrase families, move patterns, transitions, and style checks
The main strategy should come from the course notes in Chapter1-Week1-7 and
the curated article-pattern reference. The 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.
- Avoid em dashes in polished output by default. Prefer commas, parentheses, or full stops. Use colons sparingly unless the user explicitly asks to preserve dash-based punctuation or wants a colon-led style.
When to open extra files
These files are reference support. Use them after the section's rhetorical job is clear.
| File | Open when |
|---|---|
| references/published-article-patterns.md | You need Nature/Nature Communications article-level writing patterns for abstracts, introductions, Results, Discussion, conclusions, or titles |
| references/writing-strategy.md | You need paragraph- or section-level argument repair before sentence polishing |
| 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 |
What ships with it
29 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.
- manifest.yaml 3.7 KB
- README.md 3.0 KB
- references/latex-layout.md 9.5 KB
- references/nat-comms-2025-diction.md 3.9 KB
- references/phrasebank-playbook.md 3.6 KB
- references/published-article-patterns.md 4.2 KB
- references/section-moves.md 5.6 KB
- references/style-guardrails.md 2.6 KB
- references/writing-strategy.md 4.3 KB
- static/core/failure-modes.md 883 B
- static/core/output-format.md 487 B
- static/core/stance.md 1.6 KB
- static/fragments/journal/generic.md 741 B
- static/fragments/journal/nat-comms.md 2.2 KB
- static/fragments/journal/nature.md 1.2 KB
- static/fragments/language/en.md 1.2 KB
- static/fragments/language/zh-to-en.md 1.2 KB
- static/fragments/paper_type/algorithmic.md 953 B
- static/fragments/paper_type/hypothesis.md 765 B
- static/fragments/paper_type/methods.md 806 B
- static/fragments/paper_type/research.md 785 B
- static/fragments/paper_type/review.md 994 B
- static/fragments/section/abstract.md 679 B
- static/fragments/section/conclusion.md 512 B
- static/fragments/section/discussion.md 875 B
- static/fragments/section/intro.md 649 B
- static/fragments/section/methods.md 815 B
- static/fragments/section/results.md 933 B
- static/fragments/section/title.md 645 B
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.
- today First seen · 388 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A a32c8fc39e79
nature-polishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,854 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to nature-polishing, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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