Nature Writing Skill: Draft Nature-Style Manuscript Sections with Claude

Makes Claude draft or restructure scientific manuscript sections and first-submission materials from your own evidence, in a Nature-style argument.

Installs: 16.2K; on skills.sh
Stars: 51.7K; on GitHub
Files: 60+; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

Nature Writing makes Claude draft or rebuild manuscript sections from the claims, figures and notes you provide. Claude states the task, paper type, section, language and target journal it detected, loads only the matching writing guides, and drafts. If your evidence has gaps, it writes placeholders and lists what is missing instead of making things up.

It is for initial submission only. Language-only edits belong to nature-polishing and post-decision rebuttals to nature-response. It needs the nature-shared package from the same repo.

Good for

Researchers drafting an abstract, introduction, results or discussion
Authors turning Chinese research notes into English manuscript text
Teams preparing a cover letter, title page and declarations for first submission

Install nature-writing

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

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

npx skills add Yuan1z0825/nature-skills --agent claude-code --skill nature-writing --skill nature-shared --yes --copy

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 18+.

nature-writing reads files from the nature-shared package (the README lists it as a support package to install alongside it), so always add --skill nature-shared. The README's example commands use --agent codex; this command is that command adapted for Claude Code, so it is generated, not quoted. The README's own Claude Code route is a git clone plus a subagent or slash command wrapper.

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What's in the skill

When it loads

Draft or restructure scientific manuscript arguments, sections, and initial-submission materials from author-provided evidence. Use for 论文写作、章节起草、论证重构、正文压缩、首次投稿材料. Use nature-polishing for language-only edits to existing prose and nature-response for post-decision correspondence.

Sections in SKILL.md

Routing protocol
1. Load the manifest and the core layer
2. Detect the axis values for this request
3. Load the matching fragments
4. Draft using the loaded material
5. Reach for references only when needed
Submission boundary

Key facts

Author: Yizhe Yuan (Nature Skills)
License: Apache-2.0
Installs on skills.sh: 16,170 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 51,696 for the whole yuan1z0825/nature-skills repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last commit: Nov 1, 2026
What is inside: 77 files including SKILL.md: reference guides, a worked example library, writing fragments by task, paper type, section, journal and language, and 4 LaTeX submission templates. No scripts.
Needs: nature-shared (support package in the same repo)
Skill version: 1.5.0 (manifest.yaml)
Works in: Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode and Hermes (README install badge)

What it includes

Reads manifest.yaml plus the shared and local core files
Core files hold the default stance, workflow, output format, ethics rules and a terminology ledger.
Files · 1. Load the manifest and core layer
Task, paper type, section, language and target journal
Task is manuscript or submission-package. Paper types are research, methods, hypothesis, algorithmic and review. Journals include Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Machine Intelligence. Claude tells you the values before drafting.
Try: “Write an abstract for this paper from my notes. Target: Nature Communications.”
Read · 2. Detect the axes
Reads only the guides for the chosen axis values
It skips the section axis for submission packages. It does not read every fragment.
Read · 3. Load matching fragments
Applies stance, paper type, section, task, journal and language rules in that order
Missing claim, evidence or boundary is surfaced first. Missing facts become placeholders under "Assumptions or missing inputs".
Write · 4. Draft
Cover letter, title page, highlights, declarations and readiness audit
Builds a deliverable matrix and a pre-submission completeness audit, using LaTeX templates under templates/submission.
Write · Submission package
Allocates results across main text, captions, Methods and SI
Loaded from nature-shared when drafting Results or compressing a manuscript.
Read · Main-text discipline
Examples, paragraph flow, paper review and journal format notes
Opened only when you ask for an example, a flow check, a self-review or exact Nature or NMI formatting.
Read · On-demand references

From the official docs

Questions

What does the nature-writing skill do?

It makes Claude draft or restructure manuscript sections and first-submission materials from your claims, figures and notes, using Nature-style argument rules. It does not invent missing evidence.

How do I install nature-writing?

Use the install box at the top of this page. It installs nature-shared with it, which the skill reads. The README warns that installing one skill does not install other skill dependencies.

Does it work in Claude.ai or only in Claude Code?

The README lists Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, OpenCode and Hermes. For Claude Code it describes a clone-and-wrapper route. It does not document the Claude web app for this skill.

Does it need an API key?

None is named in SKILL.md. It bundles no scripts. It works from the text and data you give it.

Is it safe to install?

It is a set of Markdown guides and LaTeX templates with no scripts, so it only adds instructions for Claude. You are still responsible for every claim in the manuscript, so check the draft against your data.

What is the difference from nature-polishing and nature-response?

SKILL.md says nature-writing covers initial-submission drafting. Use nature-polishing for language-only edits to existing prose and nature-response for revision cover letters, rebuttals and appeals.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

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

yuan1z0825/nature-skills skills.sh

Sources

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

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nature-skills README: Installation · github.com
skills CLI commands · github.com
github.com · github.com
github.com · github.com