# Nature Polishing

Polish, translate, or tighten existing academic prose while preserving facts...

- Repository: https://github.com/Yuan1z0825/nature-skills (51695 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-polishing -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-polishing -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-polishing -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-polishing -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Polish, translate, or tighten existing academic prose while preserving facts, terminology, and evidence boundaries. Use for 论文润色、学术翻译、正文精简, or manuscript LaTeX layout fixes. Use nature-writing when the main task is drafting new sections or rebuilding the manuscript argument.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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](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

The rest: https://github.com/Yuan1z0825/nature-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/nature-polishing/SKILL.md