Publication-Grade Figure Rules

A checklist for correct, legible, internally-consistent scientific figures. This skill does not impose a visual house style — frame, font, and palette are parameters. Once loaded, call apply_figure_style() before plotting.

Dependencies

The prose checklist (§0–§9) is dependency-free: it is guidance you apply by hand. The kernel.py helpers require matplotlib, numpy, and scipy (scipy.stats.t, used by bar_with_points(errorbar="ci95") for the t-distribution 95% CI). In a plain skill install the helpers are not auto-loaded by a host kernel; load them explicitly before calling apply_figure_style() and the other helpers, e.g. exec(open("kernel.py").read()) or import the module (import kernel).

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