Nature Reviewer Response Drafter
Drafts and audits point-by-point replies to peer review and revision packages for journal submissions
- Repository
- Yuan1z0825/nature-skills
- Stars
- 51,827
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Files
- 15 files
What it does
This skill teaches an AI agent to help researchers answer peer reviewers and journal editors when a manuscript is sent back for revision. Once installed, the agent parses the editor's letter, sorts each reviewer comment by the response it needs, and drafts point-by-point replies, cover letters, and marked-up manuscript changes. It also audits existing drafts, and it avoids inventing experiments, citations, or line numbers, flagging anything the author must supply.
Great for
- Researchers preparing a response to reviewers after a major or minor revision decision
- Authors who need a consistent cover letter, tracker, and marked-up manuscript for a revision package
- Co-authors checking an existing response draft for tone, completeness, and consistency with the manuscript
Skip it if
- Writing a first-submission manuscript, which the skill says belongs to a different skill (nature-writing) (wrong tool for the job)
- Simulating peer review of your own paper, which belongs to a different skill (nature-reviewer) (wrong tool for the job)
- Fabricating or promising new experiments or evidence the author has not run; the skill forbids this, but the author must verify every claim before submitting to a journal (risk of misrepresentation)
Try asking
- “Draft a point-by-point response to these three reviewer comments after a major revision decision, [paste comments]”
- “Audit my existing response letter for missing reviewer points and tone problems”
- “Write a revision cover letter that maps each change to a manuscript location”
- “Turn my reviewer responses into a LaTeX response letter with red-marked manuscript changes”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 15 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.
nature-response.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip nature-response.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip nature-response.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Provide the full editor decision letter first so the agent can identify decision type (Major or Minor Revision) before drafting strategy.
- Paste the exact reviewer comments and the relevant manuscript passages so quoted text and locations can be checked rather than guessed.
- Review every drafted reply and manuscript change yourself; mark any AUTHOR_INPUT_NEEDED items before submission.
What's inside
- agents/openai.yaml
- examples/conflicting-reviewers.md
- examples/major-revision-with-missing-evidence.md
- examples/minor-revision.md
- manifest.yaml
- README_EN.md
- README.md
- references/action-mapping.md
- references/chinese-author-alignment.md
- references/comment-taxonomy.md
- references/difficult-cases.md
- references/intake-and-routing.md
- references/latex-templates.md
- references/package-consistency-audit.md
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from Yuan1z0825/nature-skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.