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Nature Skills

Paper reading, writing, figures, and revision workflows

Nature Skills is a collection of 17 research Skills for reading papers, drafting or polishing manuscripts, checking references, creating figures or presentations, and preparing responses to reviewers.

For: Taught Postgraduate Students, Doctoral Researchers, Academic Researchers, Lecturers and Supervisors

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Source updated
13 Jul 2026
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What this resource does

Core uses

This repository is a collection of separate Skills

The official repository contains 17 installable Skills, each with its own SKILL.md file. Start with your task, then choose one Skill below. Names are shown exactly as they appear in the repository.

All 17 Skills in the official repository are represented on this page.

01

Paper reading and research notes

Turns a supplied paper into a structured, figure-aware bilingual Markdown reader with source anchors.

Typical inputs
Paper PDF, DOI, arXiv link, publisher page, or pasted manuscript text; Preferred reading or translation focus
Output
A bilingual Markdown reading document with aligned figures and source references.

Best for: Close reading, literature notes, and journal-club preparation.

Skill for this task

nature-reader

Use it to read a paper and create structured bilingual notes.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Turn this PDF into a full Chinese-English Markdown reader.

Translate and explain this paper, placing figures near the relevant text.

Use this DOI to get the paper content and generate a reader with a source map.

From skills/nature-reader/SKILL.md.

02

Academic writing and polishing

Drafts manuscript sections from research materials or revises supplied academic prose for structure, language, and journal style.

Typical inputs
Claims, results, figures, notes, or an existing draft; Target section, journal, and terminology constraints
Output
Draft or revised manuscript text, with the exact deliverable depending on the selected component.

Best for: Building manuscript sections or improving an existing academic draft.

Skills for this task

nature-writing

Use it to draft manuscript sections from research materials.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Write a Nature-style abstract from these figures and results.

Rebuild the logic of this introduction; do not only polish the sentences.

Turn these Chinese results into an English Results narrative.

From skills/nature-writing/SKILL.md.

nature-polishing

Use it to revise academic prose for structure, language, and journal style.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Translate this Chinese Results paragraph into Nature-style English, keeping it conservative.

Polish this abstract without changing facts or citation intent.

This introduction sounds too AI-written; rebuild its logic and language.

From skills/nature-polishing/SKILL.md.

03

Peer review and revision response

Assesses manuscripts from reviewer perspectives or prepares point-by-point revision correspondence from reviewer comments.

Typical inputs
Manuscript or revision package; Reviewer comments and author response evidence
Output
Reviewer reports, response letters, revision cover letters, or marked revision plans.

Best for: Pre-submission review and responding to journal revision decisions.

Skills for this task

nature-reviewer

Use it to examine a manuscript from a reviewer's perspective.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Review this introduction and Figure 1 like a Nature reviewer.

Before submission, find the technical issues reviewers are most likely to attack.

Give me three reviewer reports and one synthesis, not a rebuttal.

From skills/nature-reviewer/SKILL.md.

nature-response

Use it to prepare point-by-point replies to reviewer comments.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Here is the editor email and reviewer comments; generate a point-by-point response framework.

Turn my Chinese revision notes into English reviewer responses.

Check whether this rebuttal misses anything, sounds too strong, or lacks evidence.

From skills/nature-response/SKILL.md.

04

Literature and reference work

Searches academic sources, audits references, and exports selected citation records in documented bibliographic formats.

Typical inputs
Research topic, DOI, citation, or reference list; Selected database or citation scope
Output
Search results, citation tables, reference-check findings, and ENW, RIS, or Zotero RDF records.

Best for: Literature discovery, reference checking, and citation-library preparation.

Skills for this task

nature-academic-search

Use it to search academic sources for literature relevant to a topic.

Official guide
Suggested requests (4)

Check the strict external citations for this paper and list influential citers.

Find 20 recent Nature/Science/Cell-related papers on this topic.

Convert these DOIs into Nature-style references and export RIS.

Add MeSH terms and synonyms to this PubMed query.

From skills/nature-academic-search/SKILL.md.

nature-citation

Use it to save selected references in documented citation formats.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Split this introduction paragraph and add Nature-series citations.

Use only CNS and subjournal papers from the last five years to support these claims.

I have confirmed these DOIs; export them in a Zotero-importable format.

From skills/nature-citation/SKILL.md.

nature-ref-verifier

Use it to compare and check bibliographic details.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Check these 50 references one by one and mark the ones that must be fixed.

These DOIs may be wrong; find the real titles and page ranges.

Turn the incorrect fields in this BibTeX file into patch suggestions.

From skills/nature-ref-verifier/SKILL.md.

nature-literature-pipeline

Use it for a repeatable or scheduled literature-discovery workflow.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Track new papers on marine concrete chloride diffusion and machine learning every morning.

Create a weekly literature pipeline for this keyword set.

Score papers from the last seven days, keep the Top 5, and archive them.

From skills/nature-literature-pipeline/SKILL.md.

05

Figures and presentations

Builds scientific figures or turns a research paper into a Chinese paper-presentation deck.

Typical inputs
Paper, data, method description, or figure requirements; Presentation purpose or visual constraints
Output
Scientific figure assets or a PPTX presentation with figures, notes, and a quality report.

Best for: Manuscript visuals, group meetings, journal clubs, and paper presentations.

Skills for this task

nature-figure

Use it to create scientific figure assets from data or method requirements.

Official guide
Suggested requests (4)

Make a Nature-style multi-panel figure from this dataset, preferably in Python.

Use the figures4papers Nature Machine Intelligence layout as a reference and add a method-comparison figure.

Redraw this mechanism schematic, export SVG/PDF, and give me the source-data table.

Use OpenRouter to draft a graphical abstract, but do not treat it as a quantitative data figure.

From skills/nature-figure/SKILL.md.

nature-paper2ppt

Use it to turn a research paper into a Chinese PPTX presentation.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Turn this Nature Communications paper into a 12-slide Chinese group-meeting PPT.

Use the abstract and figure legends to make a first paper-presentation draft; keep it concise.

Make this machine-learning paper into a deck with clear method, results, and limitations.

From skills/nature-paper2ppt/SKILL.md.

06

Data statements and statistics

Prepares data-availability materials or audits statistical reporting for research manuscripts.

Typical inputs
Data-sharing context, repository details, or an existing availability statement; Statistical methods, results, figure legends, or supplied data when computation is requested
Output
A Data Availability statement, repository or FAIR checklist, statistical reporting audit, or revised statistics section.

Best for: Checking data-sharing and statistical-reporting sections before manuscript submission.

Skills for this task

nature-data

Use it to prepare data-availability statements, repository plans, and FAIR metadata checks.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Write this manuscript's Data Availability statement in Nature style.

Some data cannot be public; draft a controlled-access statement.

Check whether my data statement is missing accessions, repositories, or licenses.

From skills/nature-data/SKILL.md.

nature-statistics

Use it to audit or revise statistical reporting in a research manuscript.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Check whether this Statistical analysis paragraph is Nature-style.

How should I write the error bars, n, and p values in this figure legend?

The reviewer says the statistics are insufficient; list revision options and draft a response.

From skills/nature-statistics/SKILL.md.

07

Authorised paper access

Uses legitimate open-access routes or the user's authorised library session to find and download academic full text.

Typical inputs
Paper title, DOI, URL, or search details; An authenticated institutional browser session when subscription access is required
Output
An authorised full-text file when available, together with a clear access or download result.

Best for: Obtaining papers through open-access or institution-authorised routes.

Skill for this task

nature-downloader

Use it to obtain authorised or open-access academic full text through documented access routes.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Configure my university library entry point so future paper downloads can reuse it.

Use my logged-in Chrome session to download PDFs for these DOIs into the current project.

Use the authorized CNKI route for this Chinese paper; save it if possible and explain why if not.

From skills/nature-downloader/SKILL.md.

08

Experiment records

Converts experiment images, voice transcripts, and text notes into standardised research logs in an Obsidian vault.

Typical inputs
Experiment images, voice transcripts, or text notes; Obsidian vault and optional Feishu workflow details
Output
A structured experiment log with YAML frontmatter and archived source materials.

Best for: Turning raw experiment records into consistent, searchable lab notes.

Skill for this task

nature-experiment-log

Use it to turn experiment images, voice notes, and text into structured Obsidian logs.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

Record an experiment: 316L chloride-salt corrosion at 500 C for 300 h in Ar, mass loss 0.0032 g.

Turn these experiment photos into today's Obsidian lab log.

Use this voice transcript to create a standard experiment record and list missing information.

From skills/nature-experiment-log/SKILL.md.

09

Research proposals and patents

Structures evidence and arguments for research proposals or converts technical research materials into Chinese invention-patent drafts.

Typical inputs
Research evidence, project notes, objectives, or an existing proposal draft; Paper, thesis, technical report, source code, figures, or manuscript for patent work
Output
A research proposal draft and QA structure, or an evidence-grounded Chinese patent drafting package.

Best for: Developing research proposals or documenting supported technical contributions for patent drafting.

Skills for this task

nature-proposal-writer

Use it to plan and draft research proposals from an evidence and argument structure.

Official guide
Suggested requests (3)

I have a grant title; first break down the scientific questions and research content, do not write prose yet.

This introduction is scattered; rebuild it with the proposal-first workflow.

Expand this draft into a proposal framework and mark evidence gaps.

From skills/nature-proposal-writer/SKILL.md.

nature-paper-to-patent

Use it to convert research materials into evidence-grounded Chinese invention-patent drafts.

Official guide
Suggested requests (5)

Convert this paper into a Chinese invention patent disclosure and claim draft.

Scan this project, identify patent points, and draft a technical disclosure.

Merge these new materials into the existing disclosure and save a new Word version.

Extract only the patentable points first; do not write the full specification yet.

Compare the paper claims and patent claims, and find features without evidence.

From skills/nature-paper-to-patent/SKILL.md.

Use boundaries

Limits and checks

Verify evidence before use

Generated citations, claims, calculations, or reviewer comments may contain mismatched details.

Compare important statements, DOIs, quotations, and numbers with the original source.

Check the selected Skill's status

The official repository labels components as Stable, Beta, or Draft, so behaviour may differ between Skills.

Try Beta or Draft components on non-critical material before relying on their output.

Review access and local requirements

Some Skills use APIs, accounts, browser sessions, local scripts, or external services.

Check costs, data policies, credentials, dependencies, and file changes for the selected Skill.

More boundaries
  • It is not designed to complete every research and publication task through one selected module.
  • It cannot analyse inaccessible subscription content unless the user has legitimate access and supplies the required material.
Technical details
Resource type
Skill Collection
Author or maintainer
Yizhe Yuan
Source last updated
13 Jul 2026
Last verified
13 Jul 2026
Documented applications
Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode, Hermes
Licence
Apache-2.0
Access
Publicly available
Additional costs
Platform terms or usage limits may apply. API usage fees may apply for selected components. External service or library-access terms may apply for selected components.
Skill instruction language
English, Chinese
Documentation language
English, Chinese
Repository languages
Markdown, Python, Shell
Dependencies
A documented supported agent platform; Git for the recommended clone-based setup; Module-specific Python packages, APIs, credentials, shared files, or browser access
Review status
Not tested

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