What problem does it solve? Producing figures for papers, theses, IEEE submissions, and journals requires strict venue rules—print-safe palettes, caption and legend integrity, formula fidelity, and A4 readability—that generic diagram tools do not enforce. This overlay applies those academic policy gates on top of the sibling Draw.io Base Skill so publication figures pass venue constraints before export. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Academic preflight and policy gates: Determines venue, figure type (architecture, roadmap, workflow), palette with colorblind/grayscale safety, caption/legend needs, and print targets (cn-thesis, ieee-single, ieee-double) before rendering. - YAML-first offline workflow: Generates .drawio plus 300dpi PNG via draw.io Desktop (SVG fallback), with .spec.yaml and .arch.json sidecars kept in a work directory; no MCP or live backend required. - Publication playbooks and templates: Ships an academic figure playbook, export checklist, node-budget rules, paper examples (YOLO architecture, max-pooling, ablation pipeline, IEEE network), and compact templates. - Use Case: A researcher needs an IEEE single-column camera-ready architecture figure. The skill recommends the ieee-bw palette, validates print font floors, renders through the sibling base CLI, and exports a vector PDF via draw.io Desktop. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to create an IEEE-style paper figure from your system description, for example: create a grayscale IEEE campus network architecture figure with core, distribution, and access layers and export it as .drawio and PDF.
