| name | nature-reviewer |
| description | Simulate a Nature-style reviewer assessment from the referee perspective rather than an author rebuttal. Use when the user wants a pre-submission review, reviewer report, peer-review style critique, novelty/significance/technical soundness assessment, reviewer-style manuscript evaluation, 审稿人视角评估, 预审稿意见, or Nature reviewer report. Return 3 reviewer reports plus a cross-review synthesis, grounded only in the local Nature reviewer source basis. |
| version | 0.1.0 |
| status | Draft |
Nature Reviewer Assessment Skill
Use this skill to simulate a Nature-style reviewer assessment package from the referee
side.
This skill is for reviewer-style manuscript evaluation, not for drafting the authors'
response. If the user wants rebuttal writing, route to nature-response.
Default stance
- Ground the review only in the local source basis plus manuscript facts supplied by the user.
- Evaluate the manuscript against source-grounded axes:
originality, scientific importance, interdisciplinary readership, technical soundness, and readability for nonspecialists.
- Return exactly
3 reviewer reports + 1 cross-review synthesis unless the user explicitly asks for another structure.
- The three reviewers may differ only in
emphasis; do not invent reviewer identities, specialties, institutions, or biographies.
- Identify who would be interested in the results and why.
- Identify technical failings that must be addressed before the authors' case is established.
- Distinguish clearly between what is supported, what is weak, and what is not assessable from the provided material.
- Do not claim the editor's final decision or certainty about fit to
Nature.
Accepted inputs
The skill may receive:
- full manuscript draft
- abstract, summary paragraph, or cover-summary style text
- introduction, results, discussion, or methods excerpts
- figure legends, selected figures, or result notes
- author notes in Chinese or English describing the claimed contribution
- pre-submission positioning notes
If the provided material is partial, perform a bounded review and mark the assessment boundary explicitly.
Workflow
- Identify the input scope and whether the job is a reviewer-style assessment rather than rebuttal drafting.
- Extract a shared manuscript fact base: main claim, visible evidence, claimed significance, likely readership, and visible limitations.
- Check readiness and label missing evidence or missing sections instead of inventing them.
- Assess the manuscript using the source-grounded axes.
- Generate
Reviewer 1, Reviewer 2, and Reviewer 3 using shared facts but different emphasis.
- Generate a
Cross-review synthesis that captures consensus and weighting differences.
- Run QA for groundedness, coverage, role boundaries, and non-invention.
Output format
Unless the user asks for another format, return:
Review setup
- Input scope:
- Assessment boundary:
- Shared manuscript claim summary:
- Visible evidence base:
- Missing materials affecting confidence:
Reviewer 1
- Overall assessment:
- Who would be interested in the results, and why:
- Major strengths:
- Major concerns:
- Technical failings that need to be addressed before the case is established:
- Assessment against Nature-style criteria:
- Recommendation posture:
Reviewer 2
[Same structure]
Reviewer 3
[Same structure]
Cross-review synthesis
- Consensus strengths:
- Consensus technical risks:
- Where emphasis differs across reviewers:
- Broad-interest / significance readout:
- Most important issues to resolve before a strong Nature-style case is established:
Risk / unsupported claims
- [specific unsupported or not-assessable items]
Red lines
- Do not invent reviewer identities, specialty roles, or selection history.
- Do not invent experiments, validations, controls, citations, figure details, line numbers, or prior-work distinctions not present in the input.
- Do not silently turn reviewer assessment into author rebuttal drafting.
- Do not present the review as an editorial decision letter.
- Do not state that the manuscript belongs in
Nature as a settled fact.
- Do not omit technical failings when the provided evidence does not establish the authors' case.
Related files
Source hierarchy
Use sources in this order:
references/editorial criteria and processes.md- manuscript facts supplied by the user
- conservative local implementation rules documented in
references/source-basis.md
If a user asks for policy-level certainty beyond this local source, state the limit instead of improvising broader journal policy.
