Write Scientific Manuscript
Diagnose and repair the clarity and logic of manuscript prose, journal-agnostic.
Install
npx skills add Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills --skill write-scientific-manuscript -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Boom5426/Nature-Paper-Skills646
- Category
- Data and ML
- Updated
- 22d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Diagnose and repair the clarity and logic of manuscript prose, journal-agnostic. Use when a passage is technically correct but hard to follow: buried topic sentences, missing logical bridges, ambiguous referents, abstract noun chains, overloaded sentences, incomplete comparisons with no stated dataset or metric or direction, scope qualifiers placed too far from the claim, and invented or inflated terminology that should have been an ordinary word. Also covers writing for a broad scientific reader without losing precision, section-by-section logic patterns, paragraph-level reverse outlines, and keeping observation separate from interpretation. This is the layer between structure and punctuation: use manuscript-optimizer when the claim hierarchy itself is unstable, and scientific-prose-style for the final sentence-level pass.
Write Scientific Manuscripts
Make the science easy to follow before making the prose elegant. Optimize in this order: scientific logic, reader comprehension, evidential precision, then style.
Where this sits
This skill owns clarity and logic diagnosis. It carries no house style and no punctuation budget.
manuscript-optimizerwhen the problem is above the prose: the claim hierarchy, evidence chain, or figure logic is unstable. Fix that first. Polishing a paragraph whose scientific role is wrong wastes the edit.scientific-writingwhen a section needs drafting or rewriting into full paragraphs, or when the task names a citation style or a reporting guideline.anti-defensive-writingafter the passage logic is settled, when the text reads like an audit report, a rebuttal or a self-critique.scientific-prose-stylelast, for punctuation and rhythm. This file deliberately carries no em-dash or semicolon rule. That skill owns both, and its cap for each is at most one per paragraph and none in the abstract.results-section-revisionwhen only Results subsection flow and paragraph openings need repair.review-article-architecturewhen the piece is a Review, survey, or Perspective.rebuttal-responsewhen the prose is a reply to reviewers rather than manuscript text. The claim-calibration ladder there is the same one used below.
Establish the intended meaning
Before rewriting, determine:
- What single point must the reader understand?
- What information must the reader already know for that point to make sense?
- What evidence supports it?
- What inference is justified, and what remains uncertain?
- Why does the point matter at this location in the manuscript?
Do not polish a sentence whose scientific role is unclear. If necessary, briefly diagnose the logic before drafting.
