nature-polishing

The nature-polishing skill is designed to improve academic and scientific writing by transforming drafts into publication-quality English that aligns with Nature-style writing principles when appropriate. It helps authors polish, restructure, rewrite, or translate academic content while maintaining scientific accuracy and avoiding unsupported additions. The skill uses a routing-based workflow that identifies the manuscript context, such as paper type, section type, language, and journal target, then applies the relevant guidance and writing strategies. It is intended to address common challenges in academic communication, including unclear structure, weak argument flow, language issues, and section-specific writing problems.

A key capability of this skill is its modular document-processing approach. It detects characteristics of the user's request, loads only the relevant guidance fragments, and applies them in a defined priority order. Supported manuscript contexts include abstracts, introductions, results, discussions, conclusions, titles, and methods sections. The skill also supports Chinese-to-English academic translation and language polishing. In addition to prose refinement, it covers LaTeX layout and typesetting issues, including page spacing problems, stranded headings, figure placement challenges, oversized floats, multi-panel figure arrangement, and Supplementary Information formatting concerns. The workflow emphasizes ethical editing practices and explicitly flags situations where structural issues cannot be resolved without inventing content.

Typical users include researchers, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and academic authors preparing manuscripts for scientific journals. It is suitable for users seeking help with academic writing, scientific writing, manuscript editing, proofreading, SCI paper preparation, English-language polishing, or publication-oriented translation. The skill can be used for both targeted section revisions and broader manuscript-improvement tasks across multiple research disciplines.