Nature Figure Making — Router

This skill is split into two layers:

• A static layer under static/ that holds versioned, reusable content fragments (the figure contract and default stance, plus a per-backend quick-start for Python and R).
• A dynamic layer (this file plus manifest.yaml) that detects the plotting backend and loads only the fragment needed for the current job. The large design, API, pattern, and QA material lives in on-demand references.

Do not try to apply the figure logic from memory or from this router. Always load fragments from disk as described below.

Routing protocol

Follow these steps every time the skill is invoked.

0. Check for the OpenRouter AI-schematic route

If the user explicitly asks to generate a manuscript schematic, graphical abstract, mechanism diagram, concept illustration, or paper schematic with OpenRouter, GPT Image 2, an image-generation API, or similar wording, do not ask "Python or R?". This is a non-plotting AI-schematic route.

For this route: