general-figure-guide SKILL.md skillA
general-figure-guide from jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/general-figure-guide@git:20260428.81ea2d2Pins git:20260428.81ea2d2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills
- Path
skills/scientific-writing/general-figure-guide/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260428.81ea2d2, committed Apr 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 1, 2026
- Size
- 7,247 bytes
- Repository stars
- 381
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Universal QA checklist for generated scientific plots: overlapping labels, clipped text, missing axes/legends, overcrowded data, and cross-journal resolution/format guidance.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# General Scientific Figure Quality Guide ## Overview This guide provides a universal quality checklist for evaluating scientific figures, whether generated programmatically (matplotlib, seaborn, R/ggplot2) or assembled manually. It focuses on visual readability issues that are common across all journals and easily missed during automated plot generation. ## Key Concepts ### Visual Readability A figure must communicate its data without requiring the reader to guess. The most common readability failures are overlapping labels, clipped text that runs outside the figure boundary, missing or unlabeled axes, absent legends, empty plot areas from incorrect data filtering, and overcrowded data points that merge into an unreadable mass. ### Resolution and Output Format Scientific figures generally require 300+ DPI for raster output (TIFF, PNG, JPEG) and vector formats (PDF, EPS, SVG) for line art and graphs. Vector formats are preferred for plots because they scale without quality loss. Raster formats are appropriate for photographs and micrographs. ### Color Accessibility …
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How to install
mdr add jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/general-figure-guide@sha256:8b29eecd91e2b0c3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260428.81ea2d2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_a6xnyh2nfmgxb5df)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Apr 1, 2026 and Apr 28, 2026, about one every 27 days.
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| git:20260428.81ea2d2 latest | 2026-04-28 | 81ea2d2 | 7,247 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260401.47c033c | 2026-04-01 | 47c033c | 7,312 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7247 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills · 381 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_a6xnyh2nfmgxb5df GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jaechang-hits/sciagent-skills/general-figure-guide GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8b29eecd91e2b0c3123ace59675ec9ff228b9146acfef214a239edb87726b187
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