| name | paper-figure-artifact-audit |
| description | Audit paper/artifact figures and tables after final results are generated, focusing on visual clarity, caption consistency, numeric provenance, and submission-readiness. Use when the user says "check figures", "visualization audit", "图挤了", "caption/table audit", "artifact figure QA", or "投稿前检查图表". |
Paper Figure Artifact Audit
Use this skill after final results are generated and before paper submission,
artifact packaging, or Overleaf upload.
Workflow
- Enumerate visuals and tables:
- PDF/PNG/SVG figures.
- CSV, Markdown, TeX, and notebook-generated tables.
- plotting scripts and trace CSV/provenance files.
- Render PDF figures to PNG previews when visual inspection is needed.
- Inspect visual clarity:
- axes, tick labels, legends, colorbars, annotations, panel labels.
- clipped text and PDF bounding boxes.
- crowded captions or captions pretending to be x-axis labels.
- Verify numeric provenance:
- table values match current trace CSVs or promoted result files.
- figure curves/bars are generated from current final results.
- no old package data is silently reused.
- Check captions:
- caption describes what the figure/table actually measures.
- caption does not strengthen the claim beyond the data.
- metric names are consistent across paper, artifact, and trace files.
- Distinguish metrics carefully:
- latency speedup.
- storage ratio.
- fidelity/quality.
- recall.
- break-even or amortization metrics.
- Fix visuals by editing plotting code/specs when possible, then regenerate.
Avoid manual edits to generated PDFs.
- Re-render previews and rerun checks before marking ready.
Visual Checks
- Legends must not cover data lines.
- Colorbars need labels separate from axes.
- X-axis labels must not look like panel captions.
- Multiline tick labels must remain readable.
- Heatmap annotation text must contrast with cell colors.
- PDF bounding boxes must not clip labels, legends, or captions.
- Any text inside figures should match the paper body font size unless the venue
requires a documented exception.
Guardrails
- Do not alter numeric results during visual fixes.
- Do not change captions to stronger claims than the data supports.
- Public artifact visuals must stay clean and English.
- Internal writing visuals can match public visuals, but READMEs may differ.
- If provenance cannot be established, mark the item as blocked instead of
approving it.
