Figure Styling Skills Index

Design

Aesthetic guidelines for scientific figure production. Each style file specifies palettes, typography, layout, and domain-specific sub-styles for a given target venue (NeurIPS, Nature, IEEE, etc.) and figure class (methodology diagram vs. statistical plot). Used by the Graph Maker Team's `illustrator` and `data_plotter` agents.

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Figure Styling Skills

Resources for the Graph Maker Team's illustrator (diagram) and data_plotter (plot) agents. The leader writes aesthetic_guide: <style_id> into style_card.json; the producing agent then loads the matching style file listed below.

Available styles

Style ID	File	Target	Figure class
`neurips_diagram`	styles/neurips_diagram.md	NeurIPS / top ML venues	Methodology / framework / pipeline diagrams
`neurips_plot`	styles/neurips_plot.md	NeurIPS / top ML venues	Statistical plots (bar, line, scatter, heatmap, …)

How to use

Leader sets aesthetic_guide: "<style_id>" in {workdir}/inputs/style_card.json.
Sub-agent (illustrator / data_plotter) consults this skill index, then reads the style file whose id matches aesthetic_guide.
Agent applies the guidance alongside style_card.json. Priority chain for conflicts: user references > style_card.json > figure_styling/<style_id> > internal defaults.

If aesthetic_guide is custom or null, sub-agents do not load any file from this skill — they rely purely on style_card.json and their internal defaults.

Custom styles

Users can drop additional .md files into styles/ (e.g. nature_figure.md, ieee_figure.md, my_lab_style.md) following the same section structure as the NeurIPS guides. Set aesthetic_guide: "<new_style_id>" in style_card.json to activate.