# PaperFig

Design, implement, revise, and validate publication-quality scientific figures from...

- Repository: https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpine (6151 stars)
- Category: Design
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-14
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add WUBING2023/PaperSpine --skill paperFig -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add WUBING2023/PaperSpine --skill paperFig -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add WUBING2023/PaperSpine --skill paperFig -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add WUBING2023/PaperSpine --skill paperFig -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add WUBING2023/PaperSpine`

## Description

Design, implement, revise, and validate publication-quality scientific figures from references, existing plotting code, and real project data. Trace every figure to source code and inputs; deconstruct reference figures; plan the scientific story and multi-panel structure; build complex model architecture and statistical panels; enforce a consistent visual system; and render-verify PDF/SVG/PNG outputs. Use for 科研配图, 论文配图, 找图的源代码, 参考图复刻与改造, 模型框架图, 多面板主图, figure redesign, or standardizing a research-figure process.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# paperFig

Create scientifically faithful, publication-quality figures through a
repeatable process from evidence inventory to final render QA.

This skill governs the **research-figure process only**. It does not include
anonymization, data perturbation, synthetic replacement, identifier removal,
or privacy guarantees. If the user separately requests those operations,
treat them as an additional workflow with an explicit data-release contract;
do not silently mix them into ordinary scientific plotting.

## Mandatory routing

Read the following references before acting:

- `references/research-figure-process.md` for the phase-by-phase workflow.
- `references/reference-deconstruction.md` before imitating or adapting a
  reference figure.
- `references/architecture-and-multipanel-design.md` for model diagrams or
  compound figures.
- `references/scientific-visual-qa.md` before final generation and delivery.

Use the PDF skill whenever a PDF is read, created, or reviewed. Use the
spreadsheets skill when the main source is an XLSX workbook requiring
inspection or transformation.

## Trigger conditions

Use this skill when the user asks to:

- create or improve scientific, academic, or paper figures;
- locate the plotting code and data behind figures in a PDF or directory;
- reproduce the visual logic of public reference figures with project data;
- build a model architecture, Transformer diagram, mechanism schematic, or
  evidence-backed workflow panel;
- redesign benchmark, ablation, transfer, interpretability, or mechanism
  figures;
- assemble a consistent multi-figure suite or reference-vs-redraw atlas;
- standardize an existing plotting project into a reusable process.

Do not use it for generic illustration, ordinary photo editing, UI design, or
privacy/anonymization as the primary objective.

## Core principles

The rest: https://github.com/WUBING2023/PaperSpine/blob/HEAD/paperspine5/core/02_PaperFigure/02_paperFig_skill/SKILL.md