/nature-writing

name: nature-writing
description: Draft, restructure, or plan Nature-style manuscript sections from author-provided claims, results, figures, notes, or Chinese drafts. Use when the user wants to write or rebuild an abstract, introduction, results narrative, discussion, conclusion, title, or full manuscript argument rather than only polish finished prose.
version: 0.2.0
author: Community contribution based on curated Nature/Nature Communications writing patterns and open research-writing notes

Nature-Style Scientific Writing

Use this skill when the user needs help creating or rebuilding manuscript prose, not merely polishing existing sentences.

Core stance

• Author evidence comes first. Do not invent results, mechanisms, references,

methods, novelty, sample sizes, statistics or limitations.

• Write the argument before writing the sentences.
• Make the paper easy to judge: relevance, novelty, trust, reuse and meaning.
• Use ambitious but bounded claims.
• If essential evidence is missing, write a placeholder or ask for the missing

input instead of filling the gap.

Mined writing memory

Before drafting or restructuring academic prose, check the active installed `skills/ml-paper-writing/references/knowledge/paper-miner-writing-memory.md` under the current client's skill home. Read only entries relevant to this paper's section, article type, and venue. Use mined patterns for structure and wording ideas, while grounding every claim in the author's evidence and the target journal's requirements. Do not copy source phrasing. If the memory is absent or has no relevant entries, continue with this skill's references.

When to open extra files

| File | Open when | |---|---| | [references/article-architecture.md](references/article-architecture.md) | You need section-level structure, argument order, or published-article writing patterns | | [references/abstract.md](references/abstract.md) | Drafting or revising an abstract, especially challenge-contribution and challenge-insight-contribution forms | | [references/introduction.md](references/introduction.md) | Drafting or revising an Introduction, task framing, technical challenge, contribution framing, or teaser/pipeline logic | | [references/related-work.md](references/related-work.md) | Rebuilding Related Work as topic synthesis instead of a paper-by-paper list | | [references/method.md](references/method.md) | Writing Method sections, pipeline modules, module motivation, technical advantages, or implementation details | | [references/experiments.md](references/experiments.md) | Planning or writing Experiments/Results around baselines, ablations, metrics, tables, figures, and claim support | | [references/conclusion.md](references/conclusion.md) | Writing a bounded conclusion with contribution, evidence, impact, limitation, and future direction | | [references/paragraph-flow.md](references/paragraph-flow.md) | User asks whether a paragraph flows, makes sense, or is clear; use reverse outlining and paragraph-message checks | | [references/paper-review.md](references/paper-review.md) | Final manuscript self-review, rejection-risk audit, claim-evidence alignment, or reviewer-facing critique | | [references/chinese-author-workflow.md](references/chinese-author-workflow.md) | The user's notes are Chinese, mixed Chinese-English, or organized as lab notes rather than manuscript prose | | [references/examples/index.md](references/examples/index.md) | You need concrete abstract, introduction, or method examples after choosing the relevant guide |

Intake

Before drafting, identify:

• manuscript section: title, abstract, introduction, results, discussion,

conclusion, significance paragraph or full outline

• paper type: mechanism, method, resource, device, model, clinical, materials,

computational or interdisciplinary

• core claim: what the paper actually demonstrates
• evidence: figures, measurements, comparisons, datasets, statistics or examples
• boundary: where the claim stops
• target journal or word limit, if provided

If any of `core claim`, `evidence` or `boundary` is absent, expose the gap before drafting. You may still produce a scaffold with explicit placeholders.

Writing workflow

1. Build a one-sentence argument: `In [system/problem], we show [advance] using [approach], supported by [evidence], with [boundary].` 2. Choose the section architecture from `references/article-architecture.md`. 3. Map each paragraph to one job: context, gap, approach, result, comparison, mechanism, implication or limitation. 4. Draft from evidence outward. Keep claims near the data that support them. 5. Calibrate verbs: `show`, `demonstrate`, `suggest`, `indicate`, `enable`, `may`, `could`. 6. Remove unsupported novelty and universal claims. 7. Run a paragraph-flow check: one paragraph, one message, with a clear first sentence and explicit sentence-to-sentence relation. 8. Return prose plus concise notes on assumptions and missing inputs.

Section defaults

Abstract

Default Nature pattern:

`context/problem -> gap -> approach -> key result -> implication -> boundary`

For technical AI, ML, CV or method-heavy manuscripts, open `references/abstract.md` and choose one of:

• `challenge -> contribution`
• `challenge -> insight -> contribution`
• `multiple contributions`

Keep it compact. Include quantitative or comparative detail when the user provided it. End with what the work enables, not generic importance.

Introduction

Use:

`field scale -> bottleneck -> prior attempts -> unresolved gap -> present study`

For method-heavy papers, open `references/introduction.md` and reason backward from the technical challenge and contribution before drafting forward.

Do not summarize all results. The final paragraph should state what this paper does and how it addresses the gap.

Results narrative

Use an evidence ladder:

`system/workflow -> validation -> main result -> baseline comparison -> mechanism/diagnost