nature-shared Skill (Nature Skills): Shared References

Holds the shared writing rules, ethics notes and journal formats that other Nature Skills read, for researchers who use the nature-* skill set.

Installs: 13.7K; on skills.sh
Stars: 51.7K; on GitHub
Files: 20; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

nature-shared is not a workflow you call. SKILL.md says to use it only as a dependency of another installed Nature skill, and to load the single file that skill asks for, never the whole package. The files cover ethics, research compliance, paper types, terminology, a consistency sweep, main-text discipline, and guidance for Results, Discussion, Introduction and abstracts.

It also holds format notes for Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Machine Intelligence. SKILL.md says some of the guidance is corpus-derived writing advice and not official journal policy.

Good for

Researchers installing nature-writing, nature-polishing or nature-reader
Authors preparing a Nature, Nature Communications or NMI manuscript
Skill maintainers who want to see how a shared reference layer is built

Install nature-shared

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the nature-shared skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --skill nature-reader --skill nature-shared

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

nature-shared does nothing alone. Install it with the Nature skill that reads it. Select your coding tool when the installer asks.

Built from the package data we hold. Not yet tested by us. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Internal shared-reference support package for installed Nature Skills, including nature-writing, nature-polishing, nature-response, nature-reader, and nature-paper2ppt. Do not invoke it as a standalone user workflow. Load only the specific core or journal-format file requested by another Nature skill.

Key facts

Author: yuan1z0825
Repository: yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Installs on skills.sh: 13,747 as of 2026-11-02
GitHub stars: 51,696 for the whole yuan1z0825/nature-skills repo
License: Apache-2.0 (repo README badge)
Last repo commit: 2026-11-01
What is inside: 21 files including SKILL.md: 11 core reference files, 3 journal-format files, 2 README files, manifest.yaml, agents/openai.yaml, scripts/check_consistency.py and its test.
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass; Socket: pass; Snyk: pass
Version: 1.6.0 in manifest.yaml
Role: A dependency of nature-writing, nature-polishing, nature-response, nature-reader and nature-paper2ppt
Invocation: allow_implicit_invocation: false in agents/openai.yaml

What it includes

Authorship, disclosure and specialist compliance checks
Shared guardrails for ethics, safety, authorship, disclosure and non-invention, plus specialist compliance such as human or animal research, clinical reporting and image integrity. Loaded only when its gate applies.
core/ethics.md and research-compliance.md
Classify the manuscript, then read it
paper-type-taxonomy.md classifies article genre. reader-workflow.md is a shared reading workflow requested by other Nature skills.
Paper type and reader workflow
Fix the vocabulary, then audit for drift
terminology-ledger.md keeps terms consistent. consistency-sweep.md audits a revised manuscript for variants, unreconciled numbers, contradicted claims and tense drift.
Terminology ledger and consistency sweep
Result placement, compression and claim repetition
Used for placing results, compressing main text, allocating evidence between text, captions and SI, and checking for repeated claims.
Main-text discipline
Four writing guides for Nature-style papers
nature-results-discussion.md, discussion-argument-language.md, nature-introduction.md and nature-abstract.md. SKILL.md says the Nature-style ones are corpus-derived and not official journal policy.
Results, Discussion, Introduction, Abstract guides
Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Machine Intelligence
nature.md is for the flagship journal only. nature-machine-intelligence.md covers NMI article types, limits, initial-submission files and data and code duties. nat-comms.md covers Nature Communications conventions.
Journal formats
Mechanical first pass for term, number and unit variants
A Python script that reads the files you pass and prints warnings about terminology variants, equal numbers at different precision and equivalent lengths in different units. The README says its output is warnings for review, not automatic edits.
Runs code · scripts/check_consistency.py

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

The package is reference text plus one local Python script that reads files you point it at and prints warnings.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

One bundled Python script
scripts/check_consistency.py reads the paths you give it and prints warnings or JSON. Another Nature skill decides when to run it, so check which files it is pointed at. github.com

Security advisories

No published security advisories as of Nov 2, 2026.

Technical details

Turning on read-only	No switch is documented. The README describes the script output as warnings for review, not automatic edits.
Sign-in and keys	The script's imports and the SKILL.md name no credentials.
Scopes	check_consistency.py reads the manuscript files you pass as arguments

Questions

What is nature-shared?

It is a support package of shared reference files for the Nature Skills set. Other skills such as nature-writing and nature-polishing read single files from it when they need ethics rules, a journal format or a writing guide.

Can I use it on its own?

It is not meant to be. SKILL.md says not to invoke it as a standalone workflow, and agents/openai.yaml sets allow_implicit_invocation to false. Install it with the nature-* skill that needs it.

How do I install it?

Use the install box above. It installs nature-reader and nature-shared together, as the README example does. Swap nature-reader for the Nature skill you use, because the README says to install nature-shared alongside the skills that reference it.

Does it run code?

It bundles one Python script, check_consistency.py, which another skill can run on a manuscript. It reads the files you give it and prints warnings. It imports only Python standard library modules (argparse, json, re, dataclasses, decimal, pathlib and typing). The rest of the package is Markdown and YAML.

Is the Nature guidance official?

Not all of it. SKILL.md says the Results, Discussion, Introduction and abstract guides are corpus-derived writing guidance and not official journal policy. The journal-format files are the place for exact submission rules.

Is it safe?

It holds reference text and one local Python script. manifest.yaml says to resolve the script relative to the package, not your working folder. Treat manuscript checks as advice and confirm journal rules on the journal’s own site.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: yuan1z0825/nature-skills
Folder: skills/nature-shared

yuan1z0825/nature-skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

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nature-skills README · github.com
nature-shared SKILL.md · github.com
nature-shared README_EN.md · github.com
manifest.yaml · github.com
check_consistency.py · github.com
agents/openai.yaml · github.com