Use when targeting Nature Food or deciding whether a food-systems manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the food-systems-significance and transdisciplinary bar, evidence and reproducibility expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
SkillScore86Maintained
Automatic
◆Writing & Editing pack
Last verified 8/15/2026
What it changes
Passed 19 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 9 of 22 without it.
Without skill41%
With skill86%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
Includes the bracketed header [Re-route suggestion].
Uses the exact output structure key [Systems significance].
Uses the required exact bracketed field label [Target] Nature Food.
and 10 more in the full report
11 fixed8 passed either way2 still failing1 broke
Pass-rate lift
+45 pp
Tokens
+16%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-46%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/15/2026v119 of 22 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 11 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 11
Prompt
Our team tested a heat-tolerant maize variety across two experimental plots in Kansas over a single growing season, measuring grain yield and canopy temperature. We want a venue fit analysis for Nature Food. Evaluate our manuscript fit and output the complete structured review.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
Outlines the single-site single-season empirical limitation under the top risk section.
Missed
Passed
Proposes re-routing to field-crops-research or agronomy-for-sustainable-development if system-level scope is not expanded.
Passed
Passed
case-09 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/15/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md115 linessingle file
Nature Food (nature-food)
Journal positioning
Nature Food is the Nature Portfolio journal for research, analysis, and opinion across
the entire food system — production, processing, distribution, consumption, nutrition,
and the environmental, economic, and social dimensions that connect them. Its defining
expectation is food-systems significance: a result that matters beyond a single crop,
process, or location and speaks to how food is produced or consumed sustainably and
healthily. A solid agronomy, food-chemistry, or nutrition result with no systems-level
significance is a poor fit, however rigorous. This skill is a fit / venue-selection /
re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current author guidelines. Before
submitting, re-check the live Nature Food submission guidance.
When to trigger
The author names Nature Food and wants a fit/framing check for a food-systems paper.
A specialist agronomy / food-science / nutrition / supply-chain result must be re-framed
into a food-systems-significance narrative.
The author is choosing between Nature Food, a Nature Portfolio sibling, and a specialist
agriculture or food journal.
The author needs Nature Food's desk-reject heuristics and a credible alternative route.
Scope & topic fit
Sustainable food production: crops, livestock, aquaculture, and agroecology when the
contribution reaches system-level outcomes (yield–environment trade-offs, resilience).
Food environment and nutrition: diets, food security, and health outcomes analyzed at
population or systems scale.
Food processing, safety, and supply chains when the advance reframes a systems problem,
not just a unit operation.
Environmental footprint of food: land, water, biodiversity, and greenhouse-gas analyses,
including life-cycle and modeling studies.
Food policy, economics, and behavior with rigorous, generalizable evidence.
Transdisciplinary syntheses that connect production, environment, and human health.
Method & evidence bar
The central claim must carry food-systems significance, supported by evidence
appropriate to the method (field/experimental, observational, modeling, or analytical).
Use when targeting Trends in Food Science & Technology or deciding whether a food-science review manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's review-only fit, the critical-synthesis and comprehensiveness bar, structure expectations, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.