What is nature-writing?

A writing aid for drafting or restructuring sections of scientific papers in the style expected by Nature, a major research journal.

Use it for abstracts, introductions, results, discussions, conclusions, titles, or complete manuscript arguments based on supplied material.

It helps organise claims and evidence without filling gaps with unsupported results or references.

nature-writing — Skill for Claude Code and Codex 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-writing

Clone the repo

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install nature-writing, 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-writing/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/yuanyuanma03/academic-research-skills/nature-writing)

Your own site

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

Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,437 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 95% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00063	$0.01437
Opus 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00575
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00013	$0.00287
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00144

Measured today against content hash 66257f887828, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to nature-writing — 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.

plugins/nature-writing/skills/nature-writing/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Nature-Style Scientific Writing

Use this skill when the user needs help creating or rebuilding manuscript prose, not merely polishing existing sentences.

Core stance

Author evidence comes first. Do not invent results, mechanisms, references, methods, novelty, sample sizes, statistics or limitations.
Write the argument before writing the sentences.
Make the paper easy to judge: relevance, novelty, trust, reuse and meaning.
Use ambitious but bounded claims.
If essential evidence is missing, write a placeholder or ask for the missing input instead of filling the gap.

When to open extra files

File	Open when
references/article-architecture.md	You need section-level structure, argument order, or published-article writing patterns
references/abstract.md	Drafting or revising an abstract, especially challenge-contribution and challenge-insight-contribution forms
references/introduction.md	Drafting or revising an Introduction, task framing, technical challenge, contribution framing, or teaser/pipeline logic
references/related-work.md	Rebuilding Related Work as topic synthesis instead of a paper-by-paper list
references/method.md	Writing Method sections, pipeline modules, module motivation, technical advantages, or implementation details
references/experiments.md	Planning or writing Experiments/Results around baselines, ablations, metrics, tables, figures, and claim support
references/conclusion.md	Writing a bounded conclusion with contribution, evidence, impact, limitation, and future direction
references/paragraph-flow.md	User asks whether a paragraph flows, makes sense, or is clear; use reverse outlining and paragraph-message checks
references/paper-review.md	Final manuscript self-review, rejection-risk audit, claim-evidence alignment, or reviewer-facing critique
references/chinese-author-workflow.md	The user's notes are Chinese, mixed Chinese-English, or organized as lab notes rather than manuscript prose
references/examples/index.md	You need concrete abstract, introduction, or method examples after choosing the relevant guide

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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.

today First seen · 161 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 66257f887828

Subscribe to this mod's changes

nature-writing is a skill published in the GitHub repository YuanyuanMa03/academic-research-skills (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,437 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-writing, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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