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, results narrative, discussion, conclusion, title, or full manuscript argument rather than only polish finished prose.

Quality

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized, lean instruction skill with concrete templates, a clear sequenced workflow, and exemplary progressive disclosure via a navigation table pointing to real one-level-deep references. Main room for improvement is making the workflow's verification/recovery loops more explicit.

Suggestions

Add an explicit validate/retry loop to the Writing workflow (e.g. after the paragraph-flow check, state what to do when a paragraph fails the one-message test) to strengthen workflow_clarity.

Tighten the section defaults so each pattern is stated once, pointing to the reference for variants, to reduce minor redundancy with the reference guides.

Expand trigger-term coverage in the description by adding common synonyms like 'methods', 'related work', and 'revise' alongside the existing section list.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is lean and assumes Claude's competence — it avoids explaining what a manuscript is and uses compact tables/bullets — with only minor redundancy between section defaults and the referenced guides.	4 / 5
Actionability	Provides concrete, copy-paste-ready templates (the one-sentence argument scaffold, each section's arrow pattern, the claim-evidence map format) and a verb-calibration list; instruction-only so absent code is not penalized, but a few patterns could be more fully specified.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	An explicit 8-step 'Writing workflow' is clearly sequenced with intake gap-exposure and a paragraph-flow check as checkpoints; not a destructive/batch skill, so no hard cap applies, but explicit error-recovery feedback loops are light.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a clean overview with a 'When to open extra files' table mapping each real reference file to a concrete trigger; references are one level deep (examples reached via references/examples/index.md) and all referenced paths exist on disk.	5 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, specific description that names concrete actions and section types, gives an explicit trigger clause, and carves out a distinct niche from generic editing skills. Minor synonym coverage is the only gap.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions ('Draft, restructure, or plan') applied across a comprehensive set of manuscript sections (abstract, introduction, results narrative, discussion, conclusion, title, full manuscript argument), plus the input types it works from.	5 / 5
Completeness	Clearly answers 'what' (draft/restructure/plan Nature-style sections from provided inputs) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use when...' clause and concrete trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Strong natural trigger coverage ('write or rebuild an abstract, introduction, results narrative, discussion, conclusion, title, or full manuscript argument'), though a few common synonyms (e.g. 'methods', 'related work', 'revise') are absent.	4 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Niche is clearly scoped to Nature-style manuscript construction, and the 'rather than only polish finished prose' clause sharply distinguishes it from generic prose-polishing skills.	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Validation

81%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning
relative_links	Relative link issues: 1 deeper-than-1-level	Warning
referenced_paths_exist	Referenced path issues: 2 deeper-than-1-level	Warning

	Total	13 / 16 Passed

Repository: Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholar
Path: skills/nature-writing/SKILL.md
Commit: 6ed46da

Reviewed: 8 days ago

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