scientific

name	scientific
description	Scientific-methodology skills for the SciTeX ecosystem — publication-quality figures, statistics, experiment reproducibility. Distinct from `general/` (which covers package engineering) and per-package skills (which cover package-specific APIs). Load when authoring analysis scripts, preparing figures for manuscripts, or checking scientific rigour of ecosystem output.
user-invocable	false
primary_interface	mixed
tags	["scitex-python","scitex-scientific","scitex-package","research","paper"]
invocation	["how should my figure look for a paper","comparison plot rules","multi-panel layout standards","PDF report layout","which stats test should I use"]
context_tokens_total	1200
canonical-location	scitex-python/src/scitex/_skills/scientific/SKILL.md

SciTeX Scientific Standards

pip install scitex — scientific-methodology conventions shared across every ecosystem package that produces research artefacts.

These complement (never duplicate) the engineering rules in ../general/SKILL.md. General covers how a package is built; scientific covers how the research outputs should look.

Sub-skills

1. Figures

• 01_figures_01_standards.md — Universal scientific-figure standards: comparison rules (shared color scale, aligned axes), multi-panel layout, color maps, PDF report layout. Pairs with figrecipe/21_scientific-figure-patterns.md for matplotlib code.

2. Research project — how a research project consumes SciTeX

Project structure split into one leaf per top-level directory:

• 02_research-project_01_project-structure-root.md — Repo-root rules, allowed files, forbidden top-level dirs, ./docs/, hidden dirs (.dev, .old, ./.scitex/<pkg-short>/)
• 02_research-project_02_project-structure-scripts.md — ./scripts/ as the primary code location, @stx.session entry-point pattern, numbered analysis pipelines
• 02_research-project_03_project-structure-config-and-data.md — ./config/ YAML tree, ./data/ inputs+intermediate, project-scope ./.scitex/<pkg-short>/, output discipline
• 02_research-project_04_project-structure-makefile.md — ./scripts/makefile/ dispatcher + research-specific targets (run-pipeline / repro / eval)
• 02_research-project_05_project-structure-examples.md — Numbered examples + artefacts; how research-project examples differ from package examples