| name | nature-writing |
| description | Draft, restructure, or plan Nature-style manuscript sections and initial-submission materials from author-provided claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts. Use when the user wants to write or rebuild an abstract, introduction, related-work, method, experiments, discussion, conclusion, title, full manuscript argument, pre-submission cover letter, title page, highlights, author-contribution statement, availability/declaration text, reviewer suggestions, or a complete initial submission package rather than only polish finished prose. Also trigger on general academic-writing and first-submission requests such as writing a paper from scratch, drafting a manuscript/section, structuring a paper, submission package, 投稿材料、首次投稿、投稿前 cover letter、投稿信、标题页、亮点、作者贡献、数据可用性声明、推荐审稿人. |
Nature-Style Scientific Writing — Router
This skill is split into two layers:
- A static layer under
static/ that holds versioned, reusable content fragments (core stance + workflow, paper-type playbooks, per-section drafting guidance, initial-submission guidance, language-specific rules, per-journal style).
- A dynamic layer (this file plus
manifest.yaml) that detects the request's axes and loads only the fragments needed for the current job.
Do not try to apply the drafting logic from memory or from this router. Always load fragments from disk as described below.
Routing protocol
Follow these five steps every time the skill is invoked.
1. Load the manifest and the core layer
Read manifest.yaml. It declares the axes (task, paper_type, section, language, journal), the allowed values, and the file paths each value maps to.
Also read every file listed under always_load. These hold the default stance, writing workflow, and output format that apply to every drafting job.
2. Detect the axis values for this request
For each axis in the manifest, decide the value using the manifest's detect: hint and the user's input:
task — manuscript / submission-package. Use submission-package for first-submission materials, never for revision correspondence.paper_type — research / methods / hypothesis / algorithmic / review. Default: research.section — abstract / intro / related-work / method / experiments / discussion / conclusion / title. May be multiple. Ask the user if it is ambiguous and matters for the draft.language — en or zh-to-en. Detect from the user's notes themselves.journal — nature / nature-family / nat-comms / generic. Default: generic.
Use nature only for the flagship journal Nature, nat-comms for Nature
Communications, and nature-family for other Nature Portfolio titles or an
unspecified Nature-family request.
State the detected axis values in one short line to the user before drafting, so they can correct you cheaply.
3. Load the matching fragments
For each axis value, Read the file mapped in the manifest. Skip the section axis when the task is submission-package or when the user explicitly asks for a free-floating argument paragraph with no section context.
Do not read every fragment in static/. Load only what step 2 selected.
4. Draft using the loaded material
Apply the loaded fragments in this priority order:
- Core stance + intake (
core/stance.md) — surface missing claim / evidence / boundary before drafting.
- Paper-type playbook — argument chain, drafting order.
- Section-specific drafting rules and structure.
- Task-specific submission rules when
task=submission-package.
- Journal-specific framing and constraints.
- Language-specific sentence and paragraph rules (apply last).
For task=manuscript, run the workflow in core/workflow.md end-to-end. Do not skip planning just because the user asked for prose immediately.
For task=submission-package, follow static/fragments/task/submission-package.md and references/submission-package.md instead. Build the deliverable matrix and readiness audit; do not force manuscript paragraph architecture onto administrative submission materials.
If essential evidence or boundary is missing, write a placeholder and list it under Assumptions or missing inputs: instead of inventing content.
5. Reach for references only when needed
The files under references/ are deep references and the example library, not defaults. Open them on demand per the references.on_demand table in the manifest. Typical triggers:
- The user asks for a concrete example or template →
references/examples/index.md.
- A section's draft has structural problems that the section fragment alone does not explain → the matching
references/<section>.md.
- The user needs a broad-audience
Nature abstract opening or asks about a summary paragraph → references/nature-summary-paragraph.md.
- The user asks "does this paragraph flow?" →
references/paragraph-flow.md.
- The user asks for a self-review or rejection-risk audit →
references/paper-review.md.
- The user requests a complete first-submission package, templates, or a submission-readiness audit →
references/submission-package.md.
- The target is the flagship journal Nature and exact submission or formatting
requirements matter →
../nature-shared/journal-formats/nature.md.
- The work involves regulated or specialist research compliance →
../nature-shared/core/research-compliance.md.
Submission boundary
nature-writing owns initial submission materials prepared before peer review.nature-response owns revision cover letters, rebuttals, point-by-point responses, marked manuscripts, appeals, and other post-decision correspondence.- Route graphical abstracts and TOC graphics to
nature-figure; route simulated pre-submission peer review to nature-reviewer.
Why this split
- The static layer is versioned and reviewable. Adding a new journal style, paper type, or section is one new file plus one manifest line.
- The dynamic layer keeps each invocation cheap: only the fragments relevant to this draft enter context, instead of the full multi-thousand-line reference set.
- The router itself is short on purpose. Update fragments, not this file, when adding scope.
- This structure mirrors
nature-polishing so shared content can later be lifted into a nature-shared/ layer used by both skills.
