Figure Planner

Overview

Use this skill when the bottleneck is no longer sentence writing but figure logic. The goal is to make each figure carry a defensible scientific job, keep the panel set coherent, and ensure that the legend and Results text tell the same story.

This skill is narrower than manuscript-optimizer. Use manuscript-optimizer when the whole paper structure is unstable. Use figure-planner when the central issue is what each figure should prove and how each panel should function.

When To Use

Use this skill when:

• a figure feels overloaded, fragmented, or hard to summarize
• the paper has too many Results subsections driven by panel count
• it is unclear what belongs in the main figure versus the supplement
• legends, panel letters, and Results text may have drifted apart
• you need to redesign figure titles or panel grouping around claims rather than around plotting convenience

Do not use this skill for:

• low-level visual styling only