imagine-best-practices by midhunxavier/imagine-skills

When to use

Use this skill whenever you are working on Imagine figures for scientific articles, especially when you need:

When creating projects and figures, load ./rules/scaffold-cli.md and ./rules/scaffold-templates.md first.

Read individual rule files for focused implementation guidance:

rules/project-structure.md - Project folder and module conventions for Imagine
rules/manifest-and-variants.md - Figure manifest schema, variants, props, controls, sizing
rules/components-svg-only.md - SVG-first component patterns for clean vector export
rules/publication-quality.md - Paper-ready design checklist (size, typography, color, multi-panel)
rules/rendering-and-export.md - Render pipeline and export workflows
rules/troubleshooting.md - Common rendering and export failures
rules/scaffold-cli.md - new_project.mjs and new_figure.mjs usage
rules/scaffold-templates.md - Included templates and default kind mappings
rules/chart-patterns.md - D3 scale/axis/grid/legend chart patterns
rules/publication-chart-style.md - Chart typography, stroke, marker, and density standards
rules/diagram-primitives.md - Box/Arrow/Label/Callout usage
rules/layout-and-spacing.md - Diagram alignment and spacing heuristics
rules/multi-panel-guidelines.md - Panel labels, shared legends, spacing
rules/mathjax-and-rendering.md - MathJax behavior in render/export
rules/latex-authoring-tips.md - LaTeX writing patterns for figure text
rules/render-cli.md - Renderer CLI cookbook
rules/debugging.md - Renderer debugging playbook