figure-designer

Advises on the design of the three core figures in a technical paper: the Motivated Example (Figure 1), the Solution Overview (Methodology), and the Experimental Results figures. Recommends the right design paradigm, layout, labelling, and tool for each figure type, then runs a quality-control audit. Use when the user asks to 'design a figure', 'draw Figure 1', 'plot experiment results', 'choose the right chart type', 'which figure tool to use', or 'figure looks unprofessional'.

Quality

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-organized instruction-only skill: clear sequenced workflow with validation gates, concrete tool/rule guidance, and clean one-level-deep progressive disclosure into real reference files. Slight verbosity in the motivational prose is the only meaningful weakness.

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Trim the Overview's venue/reviewer narrative to one or two lines; the skill's value is self-evident from the procedure that follows.

Inline a one-line paradigm pick per figure type in Step 2 (e.g. 'Motivated example: side-by-side comparison panel') so the body is actionable even before the user opens a reference.

Shorten the vision-inspection rationale in Step 1 to the directive ('load the image with the Read tool before Step 2; mark font/raster/colour rules as user-verify in text-only mode').

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Mostly efficient and assumes Claude's competence, but the Overview narrative ('A top-venue paper typically carries six to eight figures... Reviewers scan these three in under a minute') and the vision-inspection rationale in Step 1 are mild motivational padding that could be trimmed.	4 / 5
Actionability	Gives concrete, actionable guidance — named tools (PowerPoint, Figma, Matplotlib, Seaborn, TikZ, PGFPlots), specific rules (font >=8pt, PDF/EPS/SVG, ColorBrewer/Viridis), and a full output template — but the detailed paradigm selection is deferred to references rather than covered inline.	4 / 5
Workflow Clarity	A clear 8-step procedure with an explicit Integrity gate using [inspection]/[user-verify] tags and feedback loops ('If any [inspection] check fails, mark the design as needs user attention'), providing validation checkpoints for a multi-step process.	5 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	SKILL.md is a well-structured overview with clearly signaled one-level-deep references (motivated-example.md, solution-overview.md, experimental-results.md, tools.md, design-rules.md), all of which exist as real bundle files, keeping detail out of the main body.	5 / 5
	Total	18 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description: third-person voice, concrete capabilities, and a rich explicit 'Use when...' trigger list. It clearly states both what the skill does and when to invoke it, with minimal conflict risk.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Lists multiple concrete actions — 'Recommends the right design paradigm, layout, labelling, and tool for each figure type, then runs a quality-control audit' — giving comprehensive coverage of capabilities.	5 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (advises on design of the three core figures, recommends paradigm/layout/labelling/tool, runs QC audit) and 'when' via a concrete 'Use when...' clause with multiple trigger phrases.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Provides a broad set of natural phrases users would say — 'design a figure', 'draw Figure 1', 'plot experiment results', 'choose the right chart type', 'which figure tool to use', 'figure looks unprofessional' — with good synonym coverage.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Occupies a clear niche — the three core figures in a technical paper — with distinct, paper-figure-specific triggers that minimize overlap with generic plotting or paper-review skills.	5 / 5
	Total	20 / 20 Passed

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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Repository: HKUSTDial/Supervisor-Skills
Path: skills/figure-designer/SKILL.md
Commit: 207bc6f

Reviewed: 9 days ago

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