ChenLiu-1996/figures4papers

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You can use this skill without installing anything: open this repo in your AI coding agent (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and reference the skill by path in your prompts. The agent reads scientific-figure-making/SKILL.md and the references/ files from the repo—no symlinks or plugins required.

Simple AI workflow

1. Open this repository in your AI coding agent (e.g. Cursor).
2. Ask the AI to create or update a plotting script in your target folder (for example figure_PROJECT_NAME/).
3. In your prompt, explicitly ask it to follow scientific-figure-making/SKILL.md and scientific-figure-making/references/design-theory.md.
4. Run the generated script and check the exported figure.

Prompt template (copy/paste)

Create a publication-quality figure script at <target_path>.
Use the Scientific Figure Making skill conventions from:
- scientific-figure-making/SKILL.md
- scientific-figure-making/references/design-theory.md
- scientific-figure-making/references/api.md (palette, helpers, export)

Implement or adapt the patterns (apply_publication_style, make_* helpers, finalize_figure). See figure_* folders for reference scripts.
Input data: <describe your data or paste arrays>.
Output files: <name>.png and <name>.pdf.
Keep the style consistent with this repository.

</details> <details> <summary><strong>Install as a skill (symlink)</strong></summary>

From the repository root, run:

| Agent | Commands | |------------|----------| | Cursor | mkdir -p ~/.cursor/skills then ln -s "$(pwd)/scientific-figure-making" ~/.cursor/skills/scientific-figure-making | | Claude Code | mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills then ln -s "$(pwd)/scientific-figure-making" ~/.claude/skills/scientific-figure-making | | Codex | mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills then ln -s "$(pwd)/scientific-figure-making" ~/.codex/skills/scientific-figure-making |

Restart the agent (or refresh its skill list) after linking. You can then invoke or cite the skill by name in addition to using path-based references when the repo is open.

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