publication

I need to write, submit, and respond to reviewers

Cover the publication half of the journey: argument structure, English polish, citation and data availability, pre-submission review, and point-by-point responses.

Who it helps

Manuscript authorsHigh-impact journal submittersTeams responding to reviewers

Bring these materials

Manuscript draft or Chinese draftFigures and main claimsTarget journal or reviewer commentsReferences and repository information

Skills used

ns.nature-writingns.nature-polishingns.nature-reviewerns.nature-responsens.nature-data

Before you start

Install the Skills for this workflow

Choose your system and agent, then run the command in your terminal. After installation, send the prompts below to your agent.

System
Agent
curl -sSL https://paperskills.com/scripts/paperskills-install.sh | bash -s -- \
  --tool codex \
  --skills ns.nature-writing,ns.nature-polishing,ns.nature-reviewer,ns.nature-response,ns.nature-data \
  --registry https://paperskills.com/api/registry

Recommended workflow

Step 1 · ns.nature-writing

Rebuild the manuscript argument

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Task for your agent

Use nature-writing to rebuild the manuscript argument from claims, results, and figures, assigning argumentative jobs to abstract, introduction, results, and discussion sections.

Expected outputs

Manuscript throughlineSection blueprintParagraph jobs

Step 2 · ns.nature-polishing

Polish language and submission risks

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Task for your agent

Use nature-polishing to polish target sections while preserving factual boundaries, improving academic English, and listing claims that may be overstated or under-supported.

Expected outputs

Polished draftRisky claimsAlternative wording

Step 3 · ns.nature-reviewer

Simulate review and prepare responses

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Task for your agent

Use nature-reviewer for pre-submission review with three reviewer reports and a revision table; if comments already exist, use nature-response to draft point-by-point replies.

Expected outputs

Mock review reportsRevision tablePoint-by-point response

nature-writing

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, related-work, method, experiments, discussion, conclusion, title, or full manuscript argument rather than only polish finished prose. Also trigger on general academic-writing requests even without the word "Nature", such as writing a paper from scratch, drafting a manuscript/section, structuring a paper, and Chinese phrasings like 学术写作、科研写作、论文写作、写论文、写paper、SCI写作、帮我写论文、搭论文框架、起草论文、写引言/摘要/讨论.

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nature-polishing

Polish, restructure, or translate academic prose into Nature-leaning English using writing-strategy principles, curated Nature/Nature Communications article patterns, and phrase-level support from Academic Phrasebank. Use whenever the user asks to polish a manuscript paragraph, abstract, introduction, results, discussion, conclusion, title, methods section, or Chinese academic draft for publication-quality English. Also covers LaTeX layout/typesetting (排版) fixes — loose or sparse pages, stranded section headings, figures that don't fill the page or split across pages, "Float too large", multi-panel figure arrangement, and Supplementary Information that looks empty — via references/latex-layout.md. Also trigger on general academic/scientific writing requests even without the word "Nature", including academic writing, scientific writing, SCI/paper writing, English manuscript polishing, language editing, proofreading, and Chinese phrasings such as 学术写作、科研写作、论文润色、写paper、SCI写作、英文论文润色、语言润色、润色、改写、学术英语、英文写作.

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nature-reviewer

Simulate a Nature-style reviewer assessment from the referee perspective rather than an author rebuttal. Use when the user wants a pre-submission review, reviewer report, peer-review style critique, novelty/significance/technical soundness assessment, reviewer-style manuscript evaluation, 审稿人视角评估, 预审稿意见, or Nature reviewer report. Return 3 reviewer reports plus a cross-review synthesis, grounded only in the local Nature reviewer source basis. Also trigger on general pre-submission review requests during academic writing even without the word "Nature", such as getting a mock peer review for any journal, critiquing a draft as a reviewer would, assessing novelty/rigor before submission, and Chinese phrasings like 审稿人视角、模拟审稿、预审、帮我审一下论文、投稿前自审、审稿意见模拟、找论文问题.

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nature-response

Draft, audit, or revise point-by-point reviewer response letters for Nature-family manuscript revisions. Use when the user provides reviewer comments, editor decision letters, revision notes, response drafts, or asks how to respond to major/minor revision requests, rebuttal letters, response to reviewers, peer-review reports, 审稿意见回复, 逐点回复, 修回信, 大修回复, 小修回复, or 如何回复 reviewer. Also trigger on general peer-review response needs during academic writing/revision even without the word "Nature", such as replying to reviewers for any journal, writing a rebuttal/response letter, handling revision comments, and Chinese phrasings like 回复审稿人、审稿回复、返修、 修改稿回复、写rebuttal、回应审稿意见、应对审稿.

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nature-data

Prepare, audit, or revise Nature-ready Data Availability statements, data repository plans, dataset citations, and FAIR metadata checklists for manuscripts. Use when the user asks about Nature data availability, research data sharing, repository selection, accession numbers, restricted or sensitive data, source data, supplementary datasets, DataCite-style dataset references, FAIR metadata for academic publication, or Chinese-to-English data availability wording for Chinese-speaking authors preparing Nature-family submissions. Also trigger on general academic-writing data needs even without the word "Nature", such as writing a data availability statement for any journal, code/data sharing sections, repository selection while writing a paper, and Chinese phrasings like 数据可用性声明、数据可用性、 数据共享、代码可用性、学术写作数据声明、写数据声明、数据存放、数据仓库选择.

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Figures and presentationsLiterature to evidence