figure-import-curator

name	figure-import-curator
description	Use when selecting or importing figures that originate from other papers or the web: enforce license traceability, caption credit lines, and on-disk placement under assets/figures/ without silently violating copyright.

Figure import curator (external visuals)

This skill is for humans + Cursor Agent curating visuals. It does not auto-scrape paywalled PDFs or bypass publisher terms.

When to use

• You want a panel, architecture diagram, or qualitative crop that started life in another paper or on the web.
• You need a repeatable registry so venue-format audit and co-authors can see provenance.

Hard rules

1. Default: only ship figures you created, licensed, or have written permission to adapt.
2. Venue reuse: many IEEE/CVF venues require original figures or explicit permission for third-party material—when unsure, redraw the idea and cite the source in prose instead of copying pixels.
3. arXiv / CC-BY: still record version + license + URL in the registry; some CC-BY works require attribution text in the caption.
4. Never instruct the Agent to crop publisher PDFs without confirming rights.

Registry file

Maintain assets/refs/figure_sources.json (see references/figure-sources.schema.json) with one object per file under assets/figures/:

• figure_file (e.g. figures/teaser.pdf)
• source_type: own | licensed_dataset | arxiv_cc | permission_email | redrawn_from_citation
• bib_key (optional) and caption_credit_line (LaTeX-safe one-liner for caption footnote)
• license_or_permission short text

Agent workflow

1. User drops candidate image into assets/figures/_incoming/ (optional staging folder).
2. Agent fills or updates figure_sources.json; if source_type is not own or redrawn_from_citation, require license_or_permission non-empty.
3. Agent edits main.tex: \includegraphics path + \caption{... \protect\footnotemark} or inline credit per venue style.
4. Run venue-format-auditor to check caption vs double-blind rules.

See also

• venue-format-auditor
• conference-manuscript (\graphicspath, float placement)