Nature-Style Academic Polishing, Router

Routing protocol

For a new polishing task, follow the routing below. For follow-up edits, reuse established task choices and already loaded guidance; read additional fragments only when the requested scope changes.

1. Load the manifest and the core layer

Read manifest.yaml. It declares the axes (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, failure-mode diagnosis, ethics, and output format that apply to every polish 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:

• paper_type, research / methods / hypothesis / algorithmic / review. Default: research.
• section, abstract / intro / results / discussion / conclusion / title / methods. May be multiple. Ask the user if it is ambiguous and matters for the polish.
• language, en or zh-to-en. Detect from the draft itself.
• journal, nature / nat-comms / nat-mach-intell / generic. Default: generic. Use nature only for flagship Nature, nat-comms for Nature Communications and nat-mach-intell for Nature Machine Intelligence (NMI). Do not route another Nature Portfolio title through flagship Nature rules.

State the detected axis values in one short line to the user before proceeding, so they can correct you cheaply. This is a progress update, not an approval gate; continue unless a necessary decision remains unresolved.

3. Load the matching fragments

For each axis value, Read the file mapped in the manifest. Skip the section axis only if the user has supplied free-floating prose with no section context.

Do not read every fragment in static/. Load only what step 2 selected.

4. Polish using the loaded material