What problem does it solve? Academic manuscripts often accumulate figure PDFs with no editable source, no provenance for plotted numbers, and no inventory tracking which figures are planned, drafted, or final. This Skill owns the figure inventory in notes/outline.md and enforces that every rendered figure traces to an editable source or a registered evidence entry. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Figure inventory management: Maintains the Figures table (ID, File, Purpose, Section, Source, Status) in notes/outline.md, planning rows from the story and section briefs via the plan mode. - Sourced figure building: Creates or revises editable sources under manus/figs/srcs/ (tikz for diagrams, python for data plots, drawio for flowcharts), with a src: comment on every data series pointing to fingerprinted evidence. - Orphan-PDF audit and teaser checklist: The no-argument mode audits every PDF against its origin and proposes one next action; the teaser mode runs a six-item checklist covering story, caption, hierarchy, notation, grayscale legibility, and sourcing. - Use Case: While drafting a paper, run the audit to discover a results plot PDF with no source file, then build a python source that plots only numbers carried by fingerprinted mates/ evidence and marks missing values as \todo in the caption. ## Quick Start Run /stage-figs-designer with no argument to audit the figure inventory, or pass plan, teaser, or a figure name to plan the inventory, check the teaser, or build one figure.
