Five-Step Figure Generation Pipeline

Generate publication-quality scientific figures through a structured pipeline with reference retrieval, planning, styling, generation, and self-critique. Inspired by PaperVizAgent's five-agent architecture.

When to Use

• Multi-panel composite figures (e.g., "Figure 1: A) boxplot, B) KM curve, C) heatmap, D) network")
• Figures that need to match a specific journal's style
• Complex visualizations where direct code generation often produces suboptimal layouts
• User explicitly asks for "publication-quality" or "journal-ready" figures
• Graphical abstracts

When NOT to use (overkill):

• Single simple plot → just write matplotlib/ggplot2 code directly
• Mechanism diagrams → use svg-scientific-figures skill
• Quick exploratory plots → direct code