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nature-reader
Build full-paper Chinese-English side-by-side, figure/table-aware, source-grounded Markdown readers for journal or conference papers from PDF, DOI, arXiv, publisher HTML, or pasted text. Use whenever the user asks to translate or read a paper, make 中英文对照/原文对照/全文翻译解读, extract figures or tables into the right positions, preserve figure/table placement near relevant prose, or keep exact source anchors for every block. This skill must not degrade into a summary-only output unless the user explicitly asks for a summary. Also trigger on general paper-reading and translation requests even without the word "Nature", such as reading/translating an academic paper, literature reading, understanding a paper, and Chinese phrasings like 读论文、精读论文、论文翻译、文献翻译、文献阅读、学术阅读、帮我读这篇文章、翻译这篇paper.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a complex multi-step workflow for translating and formatting academic papers that includes dynamic content loading and source anchoring.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 405 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Full-Paper Markdown Reader — Router This skill is split into two layers: A static layer under static/ that holds versioned, reusable content fragments (core principles, the reading workflow, the output contract, and per-source-format extraction guidance). A dynamic layer (this file plus manifest.yaml) that detects the request's source format and loads only the fragments needed for the current job. Do not try to apply the reading logic from memory or from this router. Always load fragments from disk as described below. Routing protocol Follow these five steps every time the skill is invoked. 1. Load the manifest and the core layer Read manifest.yaml. It declares the sourceformat axis, the allowed values, and the file paths each value maps to. Also read every file listed under alwaysload. These hold the core principles, the reading workflow, and the output contract that apply to every reading job, plus the shared Terminology Ledger used to build the recurring-term table. 2. Detect the source format Decide the sourceformat value using the manifest's detect: hint and the user's input: pdf-text — selectable-text PDF. Default. scanned-pdf — image-only or OCR-required PDF. html — publisher or preprint HTML page. doi-arxiv — a bare DOI or arXiv link that must be resolved first. pasted-text — pasted prose or notes with no retrievable original layout. State the detected value in one short line to the user before processing, so they can correct you cheaply. A source may map to more than one value (for example a DOI that resolves to a PDF); load the resolution fragment first, then the fragment for the resolved artifact. 3. Load the matching fragment(s) Read the file mapped for the detected sourceformat. Do not read every fragment in static/. Load only what step 2 selected. 4. Build the reader using the loaded material Apply the loaded fragments in this priority order: 1. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aiskillstore/nature-reader