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agent-figure-gallery

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Query visual scientific figure references, show candidates for human preference selection, export selected reference bundles, and guide plotting agents from human-selected visual examples to code action.

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Agent Figure Gallery

Core Rule

Treat this skill as a lightweight controller. Do not load the full visual corpus into the skill. Use AGENT_FIGURE_GALLERY_ROOT or DRAWING_KB_ROOT to point at the external AgentFigureGallery knowledge base.

Key Files

  • KB root: AGENT_FIGURE_GALLERY_ROOT=/path/to/AgentFigureGallery
  • CLI: agentfiguregallery or python -m agentfiguregallery.cli
  • Gallery server: backend command that serves the reference gallery on localhost
  • Candidate index: data/reference_candidate_index.json
  • Global preferences: data/reference_global_preferences.json
  • Reference sessions: outputs/reference_sessions/

Minimal Workflow

  1. Resolve the KB root: 
    export AGENT_FIGURE_GALLERY_ROOT=/path/to/AgentFigureGallery
  2. Query before reading individual references: 
    agentfiguregallery query --task "<user task>"
  3. Generate visible candidates: 
    agentfiguregallery gallery --plot-type <plot_type> --task "<user task>" --limit 50 --serve
  4. Record human preferences: 
    agentfiguregallery prefer --session outputs/reference_sessions/<session_id> --like <ID> --reject <ID> --select <ID>
  5. Export a selected bundle: 
    agentfiguregallery bundle --session outputs/reference_sessions/<session_id> --copy-scripts
  6. Use the bundle before writing or revising plotting code.

Preference Semantics

  • like: useful for this task or plot type.
  • reject: not useful for this task or plot type.
  • select: use this candidate for the current agent action.
  • global_like: generally useful across tasks.
  • global_reject: hide from future sessions.

Local preferences must preserve plot_type. Global preferences are cross-task.

Validation

After changing the CLI, gallery, preference logic, or bundle export:

agentfiguregallery gallery --plot-type embedding_plot --limit 20 --serve
agentfiguregallery prefer --session outputs/reference_sessions/<session_id> --like E01 --select E02
agentfiguregallery bundle --session outputs/reference_sessions/<session_id>

Success means visible candidates render, stable IDs are shown, preferences persist, global rejects are hidden from later generated sessions, and the bundle contains selected references plus source code paths.