This repository provides a specialized set of agent skills for drafting, revising, auditing, and resubmitting manuscripts specifically for Nature-series journals. It targets researchers and academics aiming to streamline the complex publication process, offering a structured, "journal-first, claim-driven" approach to ensure adherence to high-impact journal standards and improve submission readiness.

How It Works

The project employs a collection of agent skills designed around a strict, agent-driven workflow. Its core philosophy prioritizes the journal's requirements, drives content from claims, and emphasizes evidence boundaries. The approach involves a sequential pipeline: initializing the project, planning the venue and article type, writing and optimizing content based on claims, refining figures and results sections, verifying citations, declaring data availability, conducting pre-submission audits, and preparing rebuttal responses. This methodology aims to create a more focused and rigorous manuscript preparation process compared to general writing tools.

Quick Start & Requirements

To begin, clone the repository. Installation involves either instructing an agent environment (Codex or Claude Code) with specific prompts to install recommended skills into designated directories (~/.codex/skills/ or ~/.claude/skills/), or manually copying the skill directories. After installation, the paper-workflow skill is used to determine the next appropriate step for a manuscript. Detailed installation guides are available at docs/installation-codex.md and docs/installation-claude.md. The primary prerequisite is a compatible agent environment.

Highlighted Details

• A comprehensive suite of skills covers the entire manuscript lifecycle, including paper-workflow, paper-bootstrap, scientific-writing, manuscript-optimizer, figure-planner, citation-verifier, data-availability, submission-audit, and rebuttal-response.
• Employs a "claim-driven" design principle, where figures support single main conclusions and figure captions serve as a secondary narrative layer.
• Prioritizes venue and article type decisions early in the workflow, with specific routing for Nature-series journals via nature-portfolio-playbook.

Maintenance & Community

The project acknowledges contributions from community members and developers, drawing inspiration from other open-source projects. Specific community channels (like Discord or Slack) or a public roadmap are not detailed in the provided README snippet.

Licensing & Compatibility

A LICENSE file is present in the repository, indicating a specific open-source license, though its exact terms are not detailed here. The skills are designed primarily for Nature-series journals and are not intended to cover all journal styles or serve as a universal conference template or research platform orchestrator.

Limitations & Caveats

This is a "strongly constrained" toolset, not a general-purpose academic writing assistant. Its focus is narrowly tailored to Nature-series journals and specific types of scientific work (life sciences, computational biology, methods, benchmarks, translational analysis). It does not aim to cover all journal writing styles or act as a comprehensive research platform.